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Weedon-Beck in Northampton County England History and GeographyWEEDON-BECK, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (S.E. by E.) from Daventry, containing 1178 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £11, endowed with £800 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of T. R. Thornton, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, exhibits portions in the various styles of English architecture, and has lately received an addition of four hundred and fifty-seven sittings, of which two hundred and fifty-seven are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £500 towards defraying the expense. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A branch of the Grand Junction canal communicates with the Royal Military dep?t here, which magnificent establishment, not surpassed by any other of the kind in Europe, is capable of receiving, besides numerous pieces of artillery, no less than two hundred thousand stand of small arms, of which number, two-thirds are constantly deposited in it. The storehouses stand on an eminence overlooking the village of Lower Weedon, and have an hospital attached for forty patients, also workshops, or laboratories, for the artizans. Courts leet and baron are annually held. Wulphere, one of the kings of Mercia, had a palace here; and his daughter Werburga, who was afterwards canonized, converted it into a nunnery, which was burned by the Danes. The Roman Watling-street passed through the parish. Nathaniel Billing, in 1712, bequeathed certain houses to be sold, and the money to be applied for the establishment of a school, to which the Rev. John Rogers, in 1736, added £76; the annual income is about £100, for which twenty boys are educated and clothed. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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