Great Oxendon is a linear village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 307 people,[1] increasing to 331 at the 2011 Census.[2]
The villages name means 'oxen hill'.[3]
Its eastern end is on the A508 road from Market Harborough to Northampton but most of the village is at 90° to the main road's north–south direction. The former railway tunnel at Great Oxendon is now open as part of the Brampton Valley Way.
Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Clipston and Oxendon railway station about one mile south-east of the village and with running trains between Northampton in the south and Market Harborough in the north.
Little Oxendon is a deserted medieval village about one mile north of Great Oxendon at grid reference SP730846.
^Office for National Statistics: Great Oxendon CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
^"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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next station north, Clipston and Oxendon serving the villages of GreatOxendon and Clipston was situated south of Oxendon tunnel. To the south, Lamport was...
Wentworth Fitzwilliam of Milton Park 1895: William Henry Barfoot-Saunt, of GreatOxendon 1896: Percy Mitchell, of Cranford Hall, Kettering 1897: Pickering Phipps...
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