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Lowick, Northamptonshire

Lowick
Lowick northamptonshire church.jpg
St Peter's Church, Lowick
Lowick is located in Northamptonshire
Lowick
Lowick
Lowick shown within Northamptonshire
Population 298 (2011 census)
OS grid reference SP9780
District
Shire county
Region
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
52°24′47″N 0°34′01″W / 52.413°N 0.567°W / 52.413; -0.567Coordinates: 52°24′47″N 0°34′01″W / 52.413°N 0.567°W / 52.413; -0.567

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. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 298 people.

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. The former school building in Drayton Road was built by Sir John Germaine and his wife and dates from 1717-25.

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



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