Lowick, Northamptonshire

Lowick

St Peter's Church, Lowick
Lowick

 Lowick shown within Northamptonshire
Population 272 
OS grid reference SP9780
District East Northamptonshire
Shire county Northamptonshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Kettering
Postcode district NN14
Dialling code 01832
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire

Lowick is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It appears in the Domesday Book as Luhwik, and later as Lofwyk and in 1167 as Luffewich. The name derives from Old English "Luhha's or Luffa's dwelling place", wic being cognate to vicus in Latin.[1] At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 272 people.[2]

The George Eliot book Middlemarch was written, at least in part, in the village's old rectory, which is mentioned in the book itself.

References

  1. ^ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 306. ISBN 0198691033.
  2. ^ Office for National Statistics: Lowick CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 6 December 2009

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