Exton, a village and a parish in Rutland. The village stands on an affluent of the river Gwash, 5 miles ENE from Oakham station on the M.R., and was known at Domesday as Exentune. The parish comprises 4072 acres; population of the civil parish, 651; of the ecclesiastical, with Horn, 674. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oakham. The manor belonged to David Earl of Huntingdon; passed to the Bruces, the Culpepers, and the Harringtons; and now belongs to the Earl of Gainsborough, who is chief landowner. Exton Park is the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough, and the present mansion was built in 1854, and has attached to it a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1869. It stands amid fine pleasure gardens, which are surrounded by a beautiful park of 700 acres. The living is a vicarage, united with Horn, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £230 with residence. The church, a building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1853, and contains some splendid monuments of the Harringtons and the Noels. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Horn is a small township of Exton, adjoining Exton Park, with an area of 946 acres, and a population of 23.
