East Farndon

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East Farndon is a small linear village about one mile south of Market Harborough in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England. The village is close to the border with Leicestershire, and has a Leicestershire post code and telephone dialling code.

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

The church stands at the top of a hill and the village street runs down the hill quite steeply from there towards the neighbouring town of Market Harborough. The church dates mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries and has a fine tower which can be seen for some miles around.

In a field on the west side of the parish is the 'Judith Stone'. This is a glacial erratic, brought from probably hundreds of miles away during the ice age. It is thought to take its name from the Countess Judith, niece of William the Conqueror. She is recorded in the Domesday Book as holding land in the parish, so perhaps the stone marked a boundary of some kind.

King Charles's army came through the village and occupied a ridge to the south of the church prior to its defeat at the nearby village of Naseby in 1645.

External links

[Village website]
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