Description
Everdon, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on a head stream of the river Nen, 3 miles WSW from Weedon station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 SSE from Daventry. The parish includes the tithing of Little Everdon, and the hamlet of Snorscomb. It has a post and money order office under Daventry; telegraph office, Weedon. Acreage, 2557; population, 497. The manor belonged once to Bernay Abbey in Normandy, and was given, in the time of Henry VI., to Eton College. Everdon Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £418 with residence. Patron, Eton College. The church is partly Decorated English. There is a Congregational chapel, which has a small endowment.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
