Maxey, Northamptonshire

Description
Maxey, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the river Welland at the boundary with Lincolnshire, and near Ermine Street, 1 1/2 mile N by E of Helpston station on the M.E., and 1 1/2 SW of Market Deeping, and is a straggling place. The parish contains also the hamlet of Deeping Gate. It has a post office under Market Deeping; money order and telegraph office, Market Deeping. Area of Maxey, 1483 acres; population, 313. Area of Deeping Gate, 691 acres; population, 191. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 504. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of five members. The manor and most of the land belong to the Fitzwilliams. A small outlying tract is called Nunton. A moated castle, the seat of the Countess of Richmond, stood at Castle End, and is now represented by only part of the moat. Lolham Bridges, consisting of eleven arches, are supposed to have been bnilt by the Romans, and took Ermine Street over low grounds contiguous to the Welland. At Lolham House resided Mrs Claypole, daughter of Oliver Cromwell. Two handsome bridges give communication across the Welland to Deeping St James and Market Beeping. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Deeping Gate, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £248 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is an ancient and interesting building of Bamack stone partly Norman, partly of later dates. It has an embattled western tower, and was restored in 1864. There are a Congregational chapel and a church estate worth about £60 a year.