Colley Weston, Northamptonshire

Description
Colley Weston, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Welland, at the boundary with Rutland, 1 1/2 mile SSE of Ketton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/4 miles SW of Stamford. Post town, Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Dnddington. Acreage, 1574; population, 400. A slate of a yellowish-white colour is extensively quarried here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of the 14th century, and good. There was formerly a palace at Colley Weston, built by Ralph Cromwell, where the Countess of Eichmond, Henry VIL's mother, lived. Queea Elizabeth was at Colley Weston in 1570. A dovecote stands near the village with the date 1570, and the initials E.R.