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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grendon like this:
GRENDON, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 1¾ mile S of Castle-Ashby r. station, and 5½ SSW of Wellingborough. It has a post office under Northampton. Acres, 3, 120. Real property, £3, 579. Pop., 610. Houses, 134. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Northampton. ...
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £120. * Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, partly early English; has a fine later English tower; contains two brasses of meg in armour; and is good. Charities, £22.
Grendon is now part of NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Grendon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Grendon, in North Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7957
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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