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Hace 5 días · Soon after the Restoration, certainly by 1666, James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, built himself a fashionably Dutch-looking brick lodge on Woods Close (Ill. 411). Set back from St John Street at the end of a drive, it was on the site now occupied by the former vicarage to the Martyrs' Memorial Church, No. 14 Wyclif Street.
Hace 4 días · Castle Ashby is a parish with its village seated on an eminence 8 miles east by south from Northampton, sharing a station with Earls Barton 1¾ miles north of the village, on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the L.M.S. railway. The soil is of a fertile mixed character on a subsoil of clay. The chief crops are cereals.
Hace 4 días · His daughter (his only child) eloped with Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton. According to the legend she escaped from her father's house, secreted in a baker's basket. From her marriage the Marquesses of Northampton, Bishop Compton of London and two Prime Ministers (the Earl of Wilmington and Spencer Perceval) were descended.
Hace 1 día · In 1912, under the Northampton Corporation Act, the borough was divided into twelve wards, of which Castle and St. James' Wards were unchanged from those of 1901. The name of Far Cotton Ward was changed to Delapré Ward.
Hace 2 días · Pages 275-281. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 23, Addenda, 1562-1605.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973.
Hace 4 días · James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury: 1648–1683 1680 484 Charles II, Elector Palatine: ... William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton: 1818–1897 1885 785
Hace 2 días · D-Day operation. On D-Day, 80 ago on June 6, Allied forces swept ashore on the beaches of Normandy in the biggest amphibious invasion in history. A vast armada of warships had set sail the ...
