Great Oxendon, Northamptonshire

Description
Oxendon, Great, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands half a mile W of the Northampton and Market Harborough branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 1/2 miles S of Market Harborough, and has a station, jointly with Clipstone, on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Oxendon, under Market Harborough; money order office, Clipstone; telegraph office, Market Harborough. The parish comprises 1352 acres; population, 213. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £500 with residence. The church is aa ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled tower; contains an effigies of Lady Gorges, and stands a quarter of a mile from the village on the brow of a hill. There are a dissenting chapel and a parochial school. Morton, who wrote the " Natural History of Northamptonshire," was rector.