Holdenby, Northamptonshire

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Holdenby is a hamlet in Northamptonshire

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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Holdenby within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Holdenby in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Holmby House, seat of Viscount Clifden, Holdenby (or Holmby) par., in co. and 6½ miles NW. of Northampton; was a fine Tudor mansion, built in the reign of Elizabeth; it became a royal palace under James I.; was for a brief period, in 1647, the prison of Charles I., and was finally dismantled in 1652.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Holdenby (or Holmby), par., and seat of Viscount Clifden, in co. and 6½ miles NW. of Northampton, 1855 ac., pop. 206. See HOLMBY HOUSE.

Holdenby in the Domesday Book

A village in Nobottle hundred, in the county of Northamptonshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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