Glendon

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Glendon
Lost Settlement
Country England
State Northamptonshire
Region East Midlands
District Kettering (borough)
Municipality Rushton, Northamptonshire
Location East of Glendon Hall, Rushton
Glendon within Northamptonshire
Glendon within Northamptonshire
Map Ref: SP847814

This article is about the English village. For the Glendon campus of York University, see Glendon College.

The deserted village of Glendon is in the English county of Northamptonshire. Its location was on land to the east of Glendon Hall, now within the parish of Rushton.

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[edit] History

The village has a reference in the Domesday Book, where it is recorded that it had a population of 14.[1] The village is also mentioned by name in the Nomina Villarum of both 1316 and 1327. Then it is recorded that there were ten tenants in the manor.[2] By 1428 records show that there were only ten inhabitants left in the village. In the year 1514 what remained of the village was enclosed by Robert Malory and nine of the ten dwellings left in the village were demolished, the land given over to the rearing of sheep. Glendon Hall and Home Farm are the only buildings remaining today. There are no traces left of the village as most of the land around the hall has been landscaped, although there is a sign of earthworks in the form of a long deeply-hollowed channel, running east from the hall, that was once the main street through the village. The village’s story was featured in the first episode of the 2006 series of Time Team, which featured efforts to find the parish church.

[edit] Glendon parish

The civil parish of Glendon survived until 1935, covering Glendon Hall and Glendon Lodge, as well as Bunkers Hill Farm. It was merged into Rushton parish.

[edit] Fiction

Duke of Glendon's (DOG) Regiment - Fictitious infantry regiment in the 1944 wartime propaganda film The Way Ahead starring David Niven as 'Lieutenant Perry' leading new recruits drawn from all walks of life on overseas active service for the first time. The regimental nickname in the film was 'The Dogs'.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire, page 133, ISBN 0 11 700842 7
  2. ^ Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Central Northamptonshire, page 134
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