Cotterstock, Northamptonshire

Description
Cotterstock, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, 2 miles N by E of Oundle, which is the nearest railway station. Post town, Oundle; money order and telegraph office, Oundle. Acreage, 706 ; population of the civil parish. 181; of the ecclesiastical, 496. Cotterstock Hall belonged to Norton, the friend of Dryden, was the place where that poet wrote his " Fables " and spent the two last summers of his life. Tessellated pavements and other Roman antiquities have been found. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Glapthom,in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net yearly value, £87, in the gift of Viscount Melville. The church, an ancient building chiefly in the Early Englisli style, was made collegiate in 1339; has sedilia and a canopied brass ; and was restored in 1877 at a cost of c£3000.