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PHPH News |
The website for the villages of Piddington, Hackleton, Preston Deanery and Horton in the County of Northamptonshire |
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| The Hackleton Parish Council includes the villages of Piddington, Hackleton, Preston Deanery and Horton. Situated three miles from the county town of Northampton, the villages are in beautiful rural Northamptonshire countryside. The villages have a long history, Horton being mentioned in the Doomsday Book, the Old Hall, that used to stand by the Wootton Brook was once the family seat of the Parr's. One of whom was the uncle of Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII. It later became the seat of the Montague family, a branch of the Kimbolton family whom were given the Barony of Halifax in 1700. Later the Gummings were resident for many years and sold the hall to Pickering Phipps, the brewer. The hall was later purchased by the Winterbottom family who resided until the hall's demolition in 1936. |