Great Oxendon
| Great Oxendon | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
| |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP735835 |
| Location: | 52°26’35"N, 0°55’19"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 331 (2011) |
| Post town: | Market Harborough |
| Postcode: | LE16 |
| Dialling code: | 01858 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Kettering |
Great Oxendon is a linear village in Northamptonshire. The time of the 2011 Census, the parish's population was 331.
The village's name means 'oxen hill'.[1]
Its eastern end is on the A508 road from Market Harborough to Northampton but most of the village is at 90° to the main road's north–south direction. The former railway tunnel at Great Oxendon is now open as part of the Brampton Valley Way.
Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Clipston and Oxendon railway station about one mile south-east of the village and with running trains between Northampton in the south and Market Harborough in the north.
Little Oxendon is a deserted mediæval village about one mile north of Great Oxendon at SP730846.
Church
The parish church, St Helen's, is Grade II* listed.[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Great Oxendon) |
References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Great%20Oxendon.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1054074: Church of St Helen's (Grade II* listing)
