Lowick, Northamptonshire

Lowick
Lowick
	; St Peter's Church, Lowick
	Lowick Location within Northamptonshire
Population	298 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	SP9780
District	East Northamptonshire;
Shire county	Northamptonshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Kettering
Postcode district	NN14
Dialling code	01832
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

Lowick is a village and civil parish forming part of the district of East Northamptonshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Thrapston. It appears in the Domesday Book as Luhwik, and later as Lofwyk and in 1167 as Luffewich. The name derives from Old English "Luhha's or Luffa's dwelling place", wic being cognate to vicus in Latin.[1] At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 298 people.[2]

Buildings

Drayton House is 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village.

St Peter's Church was built by the Greene family of Drayton between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.[3] The former school building in Drayton Road was built by Sir John Germaine and his wife and dates from 1717–25.[3]

The George Eliot book Middlemarch was written, at least in part, in the village's old rectory, which is mentioned in the book itself.

References

Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 306. ISBN 0198691033.
Office for National Statistics: Lowick CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 16 July 2015
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 297–8. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[1] Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 306. ISBN 0198691033.

[2] Office for National Statistics: Lowick CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 16 July 2015

[Pevsner-3] Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 297–8. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)