Lowick, Northamptonshire
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Coordinates: 52°24′47″N 0°34′01″W / 52.413°N 0.567°W
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 St Peter's Church, Lowick |
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 Lowick
Lowick shown within Northamptonshire |
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| Population | 272 |
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| 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 |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire | |
Lowick is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. 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 2001 census, the parish's population was 272 people.[2]
The George Eliot book Middlemarch was written, at least in part, in the village's old rectory, which is mentioned in the book itself.
[edit] 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 6 December 2009
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