Everything about East Farndon totally explained
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. 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 an 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.
The church stands at the top of a hill and the village street runs down the hill quite steeply from there towards the 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.
King Charles's army came through the village and occupied the ridge to the south of the church before its defeat at the nearby village of
Naseby in 1645.
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