Description

Apethorpe, a parish in Northamptonshire, on an affluent of the river Nen, 5 miles SW of Wansford, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, King's Cliffe. Acreage, 1784; population of the civil parish, 175; of the ecclesiastical, with Woodnewton, 524. Apethorpe Hall is the splendid seat of the Earl of Westmoreland, has a statue of James I., and was the place where that monarch first met his favourite Villiers. The living is a vicarage, united to Woodnewton, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net yearly value, £280 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is good, and contains a splendid monument to Sir W. Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.