Warkton
| Warkton | |
|---|---|
 Village hall and parish church of St Edmund | |
| Population | 136 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SP8979 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Kettering |
| Postcode district | NN16 |
| Dialling code | 01536 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Warkton is a nucleated village and civil parish in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is about three miles north-east of the town of Kettering and forms part of the borough of Kettering. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 144 people,[1] reducing slightly to 136 at the 2011 Census.[2]
The parish church of St Edmund is particularly noted for containing four Baroque marble monuments erected between the 1750s and 1830s to members of the local Montagu family, including two by the sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac.[3]
References
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Warkton CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 25 November 2009
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ Allen, Louise (2016). St Edmund's Church and the Montagu Monuments. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 9781784421632.
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