Lowick, Northamptonshire
Coordinates: 52°24′47″N 0°34′01″W / 52.413°N 0.567°W
Lowick is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Thrapston. 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]
Buildings
Drayton House is 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village.
St Peter's Church was built by the Greene family of Drayton between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.[3] The former school building in Drayton Road was built by Sir John Germaine and his wife and dates from 1717-25.[3]
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
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 306. ISBN 0198691033.
- ↑ Office for National Statistics: Lowick CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 6 December 2009
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 297–8. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
External links
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