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Everdon is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England, some two miles (3 km) south of Daventry. Nearby, The Stubbs is a wood belonging to the Woodland Trust, a UK conservation charity. The village's former school is now an activities centre for conservation studies. To the north of Everdon is the hamlet of Little Everdon and to its south lies the shrunken village of Snorscombe. ==History== Domesday entry: Bishop of Bayeux's fief. William held half a hide in Great Everdon. Soke of land lies in Fawsley. Land for 1 plough. 2 villains and 2 bordars and of meadow. In the Middle Ages, Everdon Priory was a small Benedictine priory, located at the eastern end of the village, close to a group of fish pools, which are still extant. It was a daughter house of the abbey of Bernay, in Normandy, and was granted lordship of the manor of Everdon. Like most alien priories, it was dissolved in 1415 under an Act of Henry V. In 1440 Henry VI granted the property of the priory to the newly founded Eton College, which established a manor house on the site.〔(Victoria County History: Northamptonshire, volume 2, chapter 46: the Priory of Everdon )〕 A junior branch of the Spencer family from Badby took up the lease of the Eton College Manor house around 1500. The manor of Everdon should not be confused with the neighbouring manor of Little Everdon, where the Cluniac monks of Daventry Priory had a mill and land.〔(Victoria County History: Northamptonshire, volume 2, chapter 8: the Priory of St. Augustine, Daventry )〕 The land was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1764: 1801 111 houses 585 inhabitants 1811 116 houses 578 inhabitants 1821 122 houses 640 inhabitants A charity school was established in Everdon in 1813, and in the same year an independent meeting house opened. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everdon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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