Lowick, Northamptonshire

Description
Lowick (anciently Lujfwick), a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, 2 miles NW by N of Thrapston station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post and telegraph office, of the name of Lowick, under Thrapston; money order office, Thrapston. The parish comprises 2028 acres; population of the civil parish, 337; of the ecclesiastical, with Slipton, 420. The manor, with Drayton House-an ancient mansion standing in a park of 220 acres-belong to the Stopford-Sackville family. Part of a Roman pavement was found in 1736. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £200 with residence. The church is a beautiful building in. the Perpendicular style, has a square tower and an octagonal-lantern, and contains fine stained glass windows, a good brass of Sir Henry Greene and Edward Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire (1499), monuments to Sir Walter de Vere, Sir John, Germaiu, and his first wife, Lady Mary Berkeley, and Charles Sackville Germaine, fifth and last Duke of Dorset. There is an endowed school wih £90 a year.