Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire

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Fotheringhay is a village in Northamptonshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Fotheringhay within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Fotheringhay in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Fotheringhay, par. and vil., N. Northamptonshire, on river Nen, 3½ miles NE. of Oundle, 2110 ac., pop. 225; P.O.; in Fotheringhay Castle (1066), now in ruins, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded (1587), after an imprisonment of 19 years.

Fotheringhay in the Domesday Book

A village in Willybrook hundred, in the county of Northamptonshire.

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