Courteenhall
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Courteenhall is a village 5 miles south of the county town of Northampton, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England, and about 66 miles north of London. The population of the civil parish
Courteenhall House pictured during the biennial Fête, Saturday 7 June 2008
The church of St Peter and St Paul
The hall from the church
Hereward the Wake
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Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base when he led the rebellion against the Norman rulers was the Isle of Ely, in e
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…inherited by his great-nephew Samuel Wake, a younger son of Sir William Wake, 3rd Baronet of Piddington. The Wake family is reputedly descended from Hereward the Wake, a Saxon hero of resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. The park was designed in 1791 by Humphry Repton sic for Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet…
Hereward escorts Alftruda, illustration by Henry Courtney Selous
Title page of Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake.