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Oakley, Little (St. Peter)

OAKLEY, LITTLE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Kettering, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 5½ miles (N. N. E.) from the town of Kettering; containing 139 inhabitants. The parish is situated in a vale on the road from Kettering to Stamford, and comprises 724a. 33p., of which 604 acres are arable and pasture, and 119 woodland: good stone for building is quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 7. 6.; net income, £81; patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The tithes have been commuted for land, under an act of inclosure; the glebe altogether comprises 106 acres, and there is a glebehouse. The church is an ancient structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower, and from the spacious dimensions of the building, the parish is supposed to have been formerly much larger than it is at present.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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