Upper Stowe

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Upper Stowe
Northamptonshire

The Old Dairy Farm, Upper Stowe
Location
Grid reference: SP645567
Location: 52°12’11"N, 1°3’27"W
Data
Post town: Northampton
Postcode: NN7
Dialling code: 01327
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Daventry

Upper Stowe is a village in Northamptonshire, in the parish of Stowe Nine Churches.

The village has a church dedicated to St James, built to the design of Philip Hardwick in 1855. It has a bellcote rather than a tower.[1]

The name 'Stowe' derives from Old English word for 'place'.[2]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Upper Stowe)

References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3
  2. "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Stowe%20Nine%20Churches. 

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