Duncote

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Duncote
Northamptonshire
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Duncote
Location
Grid reference: SP673507
Location: 52°9’3"N, 1°1’1"W
Data
Post town: Towcester
Postcode: NN12
Dialling code: 01327
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Daventry

Duncote is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, in the south of the county, two miles north-west of Towcester.[1]

Duncote is not recorded in the Domesday Book: the name of the hamlet first appears in documentation from 1276 as Dunna's Cot.[2]

Duncote Hall is now a care home.[3]

Outside links

References

  1. Information on Duncote  from GENUKI
  2. Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 153 ISBN 0198691033
  3. "Northamptonshire Police probe second care home in company's portfolio". BBC News. 21 July 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-53489065. 
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