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Weekley Village |
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Weekley
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The ancient village of Weekley, three miles north of Kettering, lies just off the A43 main road, which runs from Stamford in the north to Oxford in the south.
The roads inthe Village have no name plates, with mail being delivered by house number. Houses are not numbered consecutively. |
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Conservation Area : |
With its twenty thatched cottages, Weekley has remained largely unchanged over the last two hundred and fifty years. To help protect its historic character, it is now designated a Conservation Area. |
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History :
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Weekley village was purchased from St Edmundsbury Abbey by Sir Edward Montagu in 1528 and has remained the property of his ancestors, first the Dukes of Montagu until 1767, when the heiress to the third Duke, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, married Henry, the Third Duke of Buccleuch. The present Duke of Buccleuch is patron of the Living and with his family, regularly attends the church. (The Living is held in plurality with Geddington, a village one and a half miles to the north.) |
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Boughton House : |
The Northamptonshire seat of the Montagu and Buccleuch families, is within the Parish and can be seen at the head of a 300 year-old avenue of trees, which spans the A43 half a mile north of the village centre. The House has monastic origins from the 1420s and after its purchase in 1528, Boughton was gradually enlarged by the Montagu family to culminate in the French styled additions of 1695, which led to it gaining the sobriquet 'The English Versailles'. It is still a family home, open daily throughout August and by appointment throughout the year. |
Weekley has a population of 118 plus residents of the old
vicarage nursing home and there are 56 houses in the
Parish.
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