Oundle, Northamptonshire - Parish Church - real photo postcard c.1950s

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Oundle /ˈaʊndəl/ is a market town on the River Nene in Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 5,735 at the 2011 census.^[1] It is 68 mi (109 km) north of London and 12 mi (19 km) south-west of Peterborough. The nearest railway station, Corby, is 9.3 mi (15.0 km) to the west.

Inhabited since the Iron Age, Oundle was originally a trading place and market for local farmers and craftsmen.

The Saxon invasion saw the arrival of a tribe called Undalas which possibly meant undivided. It is the death place of St Wilfrid in 709 AD where he had consecrated a church as well as being the location of one of his monasteries. The current St Peter's Church occupies the same site as St Wilfrid's original church.^[2]

Saint Cetta or Cett,^[3] a 7th-century saint,^[4] is the Patron Saint of Oundle.^[5] Very little is known of him, but according to the Anglo-Saxon Secgan Manuscript^[6]he was buried in the monastery at Oundle, near the River Nene, around 1000 AD^[7] and a chapel to him built in the 11th century, on the small knoll beyond the end of St Sythes Lane. The presence of this shrine and the market charter explain much of the growth of Oundle in the 12th century.

The Domesday Book records Oundle in Polebrook hundred with a population of 36 households, a mill and a value in 1066 of £0.3, which had risen to £11 by 1086.^[8]

As the area became prosperous, wealthy traders set up shops and houses, and guilds were formed. Unlike other settlements in the vicinity, Oundle was unaffected by the Black Death in the mid-14th century.^{[citation needed]}

Oundle had a grammar school since at least 1465, at which Sir William Laxton (Lord Mayor of London) was educated. He founded Laxton Grammar School in 1556, administered by the Worshipful Company of Grocers, from which Oundle School evolved.

In 1743 a group of mutineers from the Black Watch were captured at Ladywood, near Oundle. They had deserted in protest at being sent abroad, instead of patrolling the Highlands, for which the regiment had been raised.^[9][10]

Among the oldest buildings is the Talbot Hotel. This was constructed of timber; it was rebuilt with stone from the ruins of nearby Fotheringhay Castle. Other public houses include the Rose & Crown (a 17th-century inn haunted by the White Cavalier), the Ship Inn (a 14th-century coaching inn), the Angel, the George and the Riverside, which has become derelict.

There are a number of churches. By far the most prominent, with the largest steeple in the district, is St Peter's Church^[11] which has the main churchyard. There are also Methodist, Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. The Baptist church has a premises on St Osyths Lane but still holds services on Sunday mornings at Prince William School.

Local schools include a comprehensive school, Prince William School, a middle school, Oundle and Kings Cliff Middle School,^[12] and Oundle Primary School rated as "Outstanding" in its most recent Ofsted inspection.^[13] The town is also the location of Oundle School, a co-educational boarding independent schoolwith around a thousand pupils, most of whom are boarders.