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[[England]]&nbsp; [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]&nbsp; [[Rutland]] <br>
[[England]]&nbsp; [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]&nbsp; [[Rutland]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]&nbsp; [[Rutland Parishes]]


[[Image:St+Peter+Paul_Exton_Rutland.jpg|thumb|right|Exton St Peter and St Paul]]
[[Image:St+Peter+Paul Exton Rutland.jpg|thumb|right]]  


== Parish History<br> ==
== Parish History  ==


Exton St Peter and Paul is an Ancient Parish in Rutland. <br>  
EXTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a '''parish''', in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Oakham. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A.,[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50953 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)''], pp. 195-206. Date accessed: 07 August 2012.</ref>


The exterior was much restored in 1850 after a lightning strike in 1843. "There are no churches in Rutland and few in England in which English sculpture from the 16th to the 18th centuries can be studied so profitably and enjoyed so much as at Exton" (Nikolaus Pevsner).<br>  
The exterior was much restored in 1850 after a lightning strike in 1843. "There are no churches in Rutland and few in England in which English sculpture from the 16th to the 18th centuries can be studied so profitably and enjoyed so much as at Exton" (Nikolaus Pevsner).<br>  
EXTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Oakham, hundred of Alstoe, county of Rutland, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Oakham; containing 881 inhabitants. It comprises 3856 acres. The surface is generally flat, with a gentle undulation on one side, forming a small valley; the soil is partly a reddish mould resting on limestone, alternated with red rock, and partly a strong loam resting upon clay. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 7. 8.; net income, £325; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Gainsborough: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, under an inclosure act of the 39th of George III. The church is a spacious and elegant structure, chiefly in the early, and partly in the later, English style, with a tower strengthened by buttresses, and surmounted by a spire; it contains several finely-executed monuments to the Noel family and their connexions. A school, at present on the national system, was established in 1702 by Henry Foster, Esq., who endowed it with property now producing £30 per annum. Numerous fossil remains are discovered. A small mound in the parish, bearing the name of Robin Hood's Cave, is supposed to have been a retreat of that celebrated outlaw.
From: ''[[A Topographical Dictionary of England]]'' (1848), pp. 195-206. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50953 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.<br>


In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Exton like this:  
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Exton like this:  
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==== Census records  ====
==== Census records  ====


{{British Census|474578}}
{{British Census|474578}}  


==== Poor Law Unions  ====
==== Poor Law Unions  ====
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== Web sites  ==
== Web sites  ==


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== Reference<br>  ==
 
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