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Upton, Northamptonshire history
The name ‘Upton’ means ‘Higher farm/settlement’ The village is both on a hill and is higher up the River Nene than Northampton.
Upton Hall
James Harington, the author of The Commonwealth of Oceana, was born in Upton Hall in 1611. The Samwells bought the hall in 1600 from the Knightley family of Fawsley who had owned it since 1419. A girls boarding and day school was started in the hall by the Misses Teape in 1946 and given the name Upton Hall School.
St Michael’s Church
The church is adjacent to the school and alongside the busy A45 road and is Norman, and Norman windows survive. There is a monument to Sir Richard Knightley and a memorial tablet to Thomas Samwell Watson Samwell (d.1835)
Saxon building
West of the church are the remains of a 6th or 7th century Saxon timber building, excavated in 1965. The remains of the timber building were found in the 1960s.
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