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Farthinghoe
Ferningeho: King's land. Mill.
Manor farm.
Farthingstone
Fordinestone: Count of Mortain and Ingelrann from him.
Medieval earthworks.
Fawsley
Falelau / Falewesle(i)(ie) / Feleslewe(sleie) / Felveslea: King's land; Godwin the priest from the king.
17th century hall.
Faxton
Fextone:
Lost.
Flore
Flora / Flore: Count of Mortain; William de Keynes; William Peverel; Baldwin from Geoffrey de Mandeville; Wulfbald from Gunfrid de Chocques. 2 mills.
Old manor.
Fotheringhay
Fodringeia: Countess Judith. Woodland for hunting game. Mill.
Castle, near a grassy mound, where Richard III was born (1452) and Mary Queen of Scots executed (1587).
Foxley
Foxeslea: Count of Mortain.

Furtho
Forho: Count of Mortain, and William from him.
Manor farm; dovecote.

Gaddington
Gadintone / Geitentone: King's land; St. Edmund's Abbey.
Body of Eleanor of Castile, Edward I's Queen, rested here on its way to Westminster Abbey in 1290. The Eleanor Cross in the square is one of 3 of the original 12 to have survived. 13th century bridge; pre-Saxon church; priory.
Glassthorpehill
Clachestorp: Count of Mortain; William Peverel.
Isolated; in army 'danger area'.
Glendon
Clen(e)done: King's land; de Grestain Abbey.
Glendon Hall.
Glinton
Glintone: Peterborough Abbey. 2 mills.
Stone; Jacobean manor house.
Grafton Regis
Grastone: William from Count of Mortain.
Manor house, partly 15th century. Elizabeth Woodville, whose family held the manor, became Edward IV's queen and mother of the ill-fated princes in the Tower.
Grafton Underwood
Grastone: Roger from Robert Blunt; Agemund from Eustace of Huntingdon.

Great Addington
Edintone: Hugh from Bishop of Coutances; Peterborough Abbey. 3 mills (200 eels).
Scene of 17th century riot between peasants and gentry; Roman graves on nearby Shooters Hill.
Great Doddington
Dodintone: Countess Judith.
Manor house, now the vicarage.
Great Harrowden
Hargedone / Hargindone / Harginintone: Walkelin from Bishop of Coutances; Norigot from Guy de Raimbeaucourt. 2 mills.

Greatworth
Grentevorde: William from Bishop of Bayeux.

Greens Norton
Nortone: King's land; woodland stocked with game, 2 mills. Honey.
Part-Saxon church.
Grendon
Gre(n)done: Countess Judith. 3 mills.
Large; Manor farm house.
Gretton
Gretone: King's land. Mill.
Manor house; iron-workings.
Guilsborough
Gisleburg: Count of Mortain; Alfred from William Peverel. Church, mill site.
The poet William Wordsworth often stayed at the vicarage.

Hackleton
Bachelinton / Hachelintone: Winemar from Bishop of Coutances; Countess Judith.
Modern housing.
Halefield
Hala: Ramsey Abbey.
Halefield Lodge.
Halse
Hasou: King's land.

Hanging Houghton
Hohtone: St. Edmund's Abbey; Ralph from Count of Mortain; Dodin from Walter the Fleming; Hugh from Countess Judith.
Modern housing.
Hannington
Hani(n)tone: William from Count of Mortain; Countess Judith.
Double-naved church, possibly 13th century monastic origin.
Hardingstone
Hardingestone / Hardingestorp: King's land; William Peverel and Gunfrid de Chocques from the king; Countess Judith. 2 mills.
Queen Eleanor's funeral cortège halted here; an Eleanor cross stands in the grounds of Delapré Abbey.
Hardwick
Hardewiche / Herdewiche: Alan from Countess Judith.
14th century manor house.
Hargrave
Haregrave / (H)eregrave: Eustace from William Peverel.

Harlestone
Erlestone / Herolvestone / Herolvestune: King's land; Count of Mortain; William Peverel.
Mill. Scattered; in parkland; Roman villa.
Harpole
Horpol: Bishop from William Peverel.
Suburb of Northampton; Roman remains nearby.
Harrington
Arintone: Grestain Abbey. 4 mills.
Manorial earthworks, possibly Elizabethan, nearby.
Hartwell
Hertewell: William from Bishop of Bayeux. Mill.
Expanding; on the edge of ancient Salcey Forest.
Haselbach
Esbece: Count of Mortain.
Wind-blown.
Helmdon
Elmedene: Count of Mortain. Mill.
Fine local stone.
Hemington
Hemintone / Hinintone: 3 men-at-arms from Peterborough Abbey, Ramsey Abbey.
Jacobean manor house.
Higham Ferrers
Hecham: William Peverel. Market, mill.
Market town; earthworks of William Peverel's castle.
Hinton (in Woodford Halse)
Hintone: Wihtbert from Geoffrey de Mandeville. Mill.
Manor house.
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
Hintone: Arnold from Geoffrey de Mandeville. Mill.
Secluded.
Holcot
Holecote: King's land; Hugh from Countess Judith.

Holdenby
Aldenesbi / Aldenestone: Ralph and Ordmer from Count of Mortain. Mill.
Mill. Charles I was held prisoner in 1647 at Holdenby House.
Hollowell
Holewelle: Bishop of Lincoln; Count of Mortain; William Peverel; Gilbert Cook.

Horton
Hortone: Thorbern from Bishop of Coutances; Odbert from Walter the Fleimg; Countess Judith and Thorbern from her. Mill.
Birthplace of Charles Montagu (1661-1715), 1st Earl of Halifax, the Restoration poet and politician.
Hothorpe
Udetorp: St. Edmund's Abbey.

Houghton
Hohtone: William from Bishop of Bayeux; Robert from William Peverel; Winemar from Countess Judith. Mill.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Houghton.
Hulcote
Halecote / Hulecote: William Peverel from Bishop of Bayeux; Theobald from Gunfrid de Chocques. Mill.
On the edge of Easton Neston park; manor farm.

Irchester
Hirecestre / Irencestre: Count of Mortain; William Peverel. Mill.
Housing estates; a Roman town and Saxon graveyard were unearthed here.
Irthlingborough
Erdi(n)burne: Peterborough Abbey and 4 men-at-arms from the Abbey. 2 mills.
Small industrial town; 14th century bridge.
Isham
Hisham / Isham: Walkelin from Bishop of Coutances; Ralph from Guy de Raimbeaucourt; Eustace of Huntingdon. 2 mills, 3 gardens.
Manor farm.
Islip
Islep / Slepe: King's land; Algar from Bishop of Coutances.

Kelmarsh
Cailmarc / Keilmerse: King's land; William Peverel.
Hall by James Wyatt.
Kettering
Cateringe: Peterborough Abbey. 2 mills.
Market town, a centre of the boot and show industry; Georgian manor house; remains of Roman industrial centre.
Kilsby
Chidesbi: Coventry Abbey.
Lords of manor once had the power to execute felons at nearby Gallows bank.
King's Sutton
Su(d)tone: King's land; Godwin the priest and Wulfwin from the king; William from Count of Mortain; Hugh from Hugh of Grandmesnil. 3 mills, market place.
Large; 14th century church spire; manor house; Mill House farm.
Kingsthorpe (in Northampton)
Torp: King's land. 3 mills.
Absorbed by Northampton; green with ancient spring.
Kingsthorpe (in Polebrook)
Chingestrop: 5 men-at-arms from Peterborough Abbey.
Part of Northampton; remains of medieval moat.
Kirby
Chercheberie: Richard.
Ruins of hall begun in 1570 and added to by Inigo Jones.
Kislingbury
Ceselingeberie / Cifelingeberie: Count of Mortain; Geoffrey from Gilbert de Ghent. 2 mills.

Knuston
Cnutestone: William Peverel; Winemar from Gunfrid de Chocques. 2 mills.

Lamport
Langeport: St. Edmund's Abbey; Fulchere from Walter the Fleming; Countess Judith. Ash wood.
Lamport Hall, seat of the Ishams, manor residents since 1560.
Laxton
Lastone: William from the king.
Rebuilt in the late 18th century.
Lilbourne
Lilleburne / Lineburn: Count of Mortain; Ralph from the king.
Roman earthworks nearby.
Lilford
Lilleforde: Walter from Countess Judith. Mill.
Parkland; Jacobean Hall.
Litchborough
Liceberge: Evesham Abbey.
Ironstone; manor house.
Little Addington
Alia Edintone: Osmund from Bishop of Coutances.

Little Harrowden
Alia Hargindone: Walkelin from Bishop of Coutances.
Larger than Great Harrowden, despite its name.
Little Weldon
Parva Weldone: Hugh d'Ivry.
Weldon Lodge.
Loddington
Lodintone: King's land.
Jacobean hall.
Long Buckby
Buchebi: Alfred from Count of Mortain.
Small town.
Lowick
Ludewic / Luhwic: Edwin and Algar from Bishop of Coutances; Sibold from the king. Mill.
Drayton House, nearby, has a 13th century crypt.
Luddington in the Brook
Lullintone / Lolinctune: Walter from Peterborough Abbey.
Secluded.
Lutton
Lidintone / Ludintone / Lodintune: William from Peterborough Abbey; Ramsey Abbey.
Quiet; manor house.

Maidford
Merdeford: Hugh from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Remains of manor house moat; manor farm.
Maidwell
Medewelle: St. Edmund's Abbey; Ansger the Chaplain from the king; Berener from Mainou le Breton.
Site of manorial fishpond.
Marston St. Lawrence
Merestone: Earl Hugh. Mill.
Manor house. Charles Chauncy, 17th century vicar, became President of Harvard University in the US.
Marston Trussell
Mersitone: Hugh from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
After their Naseby defeat, many Royalists fled here and were massacred.
Mears Ashby
Asbi: Countess Judith.
Church with Saxon carving; manor house.
Middleton Cheney
Mideltone: Ralph from Count of Mortain; Earl Hugh; Hugh from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Civil War battle was fought here in 1643.
Milton (in Castor)
Meletone: Roger from Peterborough Abbey.
2 standing stones, Little John and Robin Hood.
Milton Malsor
Mideltone / Mildetone: William from Geoffrey Alselin. Mill.
Scattered; manor house.
Moreton Pinkney
Mortone: Geoffrey from Giles brother of Ansculf.
Pretty; scattered homsteads; manor farm.
Moulton
Moltone / Mul(e)tone: King's land; William from Robert de Bucy; Grimbald, Bishop and Hugh from Countess Judith. Mill.
Part of suburban Northampton, Moulton Park was once a Carthusian Monastery.
Muscott
Misecote: Count of Mortain.

Nassington
Nassintone: King's land. 2 mills.
Stone; in Rockingham Forest; 13th century prebendal house; 15th century manor house; church with Saxon nave.
Nether Heyford
Hai / Heiford(e): William from Bishop of Bayeux; Count of Mortain and Ralph from him; Sasgar from Gilbert de Ghent. Mill.
Large; manor house; Roman building in Horestone Meadow.
Newbottle (near Brackley)
Niwebotle: Ivo from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Manor house; church; cottages.
Newbottle (in Harrington)
Neubote: Grestain Abbey. Mill.
17th century bridge.
Newton (near Geddington)
Neutone / Newentone: Gunfrid de Chocques; Thorgar and Lancelin from Countess Judith. 2 mills.
Peaceful. Also called Newton-in-the-Willows; Elizabethan dovecote.
Newton Bromswold
Neuuentone: William from Bishop of Coutances.
Manor farm.
Nobottle
Neubote: William Peverel. Mill; woodland.
On Roman road; Nobottle Wood; Nobottle House.
Northampton
Hantone / Northantone: King's land; 14 derelict burgess's residences out of a total of 61.
Boot and shoe manufacturing town. Norman churches; traces of castle; medieval market place, rebuilt after 17th century fire.
Nortoft
Nortot: Count of Mortain; William Peverel. Mill.
Nortoft Grange, part of Guilsborough Village.
Norton (near Daventry)
Nortone: Count of Meulan. Mill.
Roman site at Whilton Lodge.

Oakley
Achelau: Lancelin from Countess Judith.
Now 2 villages of Great and Little Oakley, facing each other across quarries.
Old Walda
King's land.
Also known as Wold.
Orlingbury
Ordinbaro: Count of Mortain.
Queen Anne hall.
Orton
Overtone: King's land. 2 mills (with Rockwell).
Manor farm.
Oundle
Undel(e): Peterborough Abbey. Mill (250 eels), market.
Market town with a public school founded in 1556 by William Laxton, a grocer who became Lord Mayor of London.
Oxendon
Ocedone / Oxe(n)done: King's land; Count of Mortain; Ulf from Countess Judith.
Near the village of Great Oxenden and hamlet of Little Oxendon, the latter on the site of a medieval village.

Passenham
Pas(s)eham / Passonham: King's land and Reginald from the king. Mill.
17th century manor house and rectory.
Pattishall
Pascelle: Walter the Fleming. 2 mills, church.
Partly Saxon church; Roman Watling Street. Simon de Pattishall supported the barons against King John.
Paulerspury
Pirie: Robert from William Peverel. Mill.
Scattered.
Peterborough
Burg: Peterborough Abbey. Mill.
City, a brickmaking centre, with a fine Norman cathedral begun in 1118.
Piddington
Pidentone: Gilbert from Countess Judith.
Manor farm.
Pilsgate
Pillesgate: Peterborough Abbey. Mill.
Pilsgate Grange.
Pilton
Pilchetone: Roger from Peterborough Abbey.

Pipewell
Pipewelle: Humphrey from Count of Mortain; Roger from Robert de Tosny; Dodin from Walter the Fleming.

Pitsford
Pidesford / Pitesford: Count of Mortain, Fulchere from Walter the Fleming. 2 mills.
Scattered; Long Barrow nearby.
Plumpton
Pluntune: Leofnoth from Walter the Fleming.
Jacobean manor house.
Polebrook
Pochebroc: Eustace and Geoffrey from Peterborough Abbey; Alfred from Eustace of Huntingdon.
Jacobean hall, early Norman church, probably built by the masons of Peterborough Cathedral.
Potterspury
Perie / Pirie: Henry de Ferrers; William Peverel from Countess Judith. Mill.
Expanding; on Roman Watling Street.
Preston
Prestetone: Count of Mortain and Ralph and Nigel from him.
Now Preston Capes; remains of 11th century castle. Nearby, hamlet of Little Preston.
Preston Deanery
Prestone: Winemar from Bishop of Coutances and Countess Judith.
Scattered.
Purston
Pres(te)tone: Count of Mortain; Robert d'Oilly.
Now 2 hamlets, Great and Little Purston.
Puxley
Pocheslai / lei: King's land; William from Bishop of Bayeux.

Pytchley
Picteslei / Pi(h)teslea: Azo from Peterborough Abbey; Count of Mortain; William from the king. Mill.
Jacobean manor house. Lords of the Manor were obliged by ancient tradition to keep hounds here to destroy vermin. The famous pack of hounds was formally established in the mid-18th century.