Easton on the Hill is a village and

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at the north eastern tip of

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. The village had a population at the 2011 census was 1,015. The village, sited on the

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, is compact in form, with the older part of the village located north of the High Street. The parish extends from the

River Welland The River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some long. It drains part of the Midlands eastwards to The Wash. The river rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market ...

in the north to the western end of

RAF Wittering Royal Air Force Wittering or more simply RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire. Although Stamford in Lincolnshire i ...

. The village is also on the shortest boundary in England with it being in the northernmost part of

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between Stamford and

Collyweston Collyweston is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, about three miles southwest of Stamford, Lincolnshire, on the road (the A43) to Kettering. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 514. Geography The villa ...

. The villages name means 'east farm/settlement' on the hill. All Saints Church dates from the twelfth century and has been enlarged and altered over the centuries. The church is a

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All Saints, Easton on the Hill - geograph

The village contains the "Priest's House", a late fifteenth-century building restored in 1867 and now owned by the

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; it contains a small museum about the area. The commander of HMS ''Lutine'', Captain

Lancelot Skynner Captain Lancelot Skynner (1766–9 October 1799) was an 18th century Royal Navy commander. He was drowned at the sinking of the infamous HMS ''Lutine'' famed for the ship's bell: the Lutine Bell. Life Skynner was born in 1766 at the vicarag ...

, came from Easton, where his father John was the rector for many years. Plaques on the former rectory (now Glebe House but known for a time as Lutine House) and in the church commemorate this and Captain Skynner.Another Captain Lancelot Skynner, an uncle, who commanded , also lost his life at sea in an action in the Bay of Biscay in 1760. A further Skynner (William Walker Skynner) also died at sea. He was the navigation officer in , which sank after hitting a mine off the north of Scotland while taking Lord Kitchener to Russia in 1916. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and the HMS Hampshire Memorial at

Winchester Cathedral The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity,Historic England. "Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (1095509)". ''National Heritage List for England''. Retrieved 8 September 2014. Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winches ...

. The frigate ''Lutine'' sank during a storm in the West Frisian Islands on 9 October 1799, whilst carrying a large shipment of gold.

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has preserved her salvaged bell - the Lutine Bell - which is used for ceremonial purposes at their headquarters in London. The head office of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) is located at Easton House in the village, close to the church.

Easton on the Hill Rural District Easton on the Hill was a rural district in Northamptonshire, England from 1894 to 1935. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Stamford rural sanitary district which was in Northamptonshire proper (other success ...

existed from 1894 to 1935. The parish has its own parish council and was represented on East Northamptonshire Council and on the county council as part of the Prebendal electoral division. Easton on the Hill is represented in the

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by the Member of Parliament for

Corby Corby is a town in North Northamptonshire, England, located north-east of Northampton. From 1974 to 2021, the town served as the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Corby. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, the built-up ...

. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 956 people.Office for National Statistics. Easton on the Hill CP: Parish headcounts
Retrieved 5 December 2009

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