Dallington is an area and former

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about northwest of the centre of

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, now in the parish of Northampton, in the

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district, in the ceremonial county of

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, England. Dallington was formerly a separate village. At the 2011 census the population was listed in the Spencer ward of Northampton Council. The villages name means 'farm/settlement connected with Daegel'. Parish church The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin dates from 1207 and is a Grade II*

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. It is near the site of a previous

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church. When Bishop of Peterborough,

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circulated questions to the clergy of the Rural Deanery of Northampton in preparation for formal visitations held in the years 1872, 1875, 1878, 1882 and 1888. These and the answers provided have been published, including a detailed introduction describing the condition of the area at that time and associated issues. Dallington is one of the parishes included. Dallington Hall on Dallington Park Road is a Grade II* listed house built in 1720-30 for Sir

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in place of the original manor house owned by the Rainsford family (see

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). It was later owned by Earl Spencer before becoming a hospital known as the Margaret Spencer Home of Rest. It has now been divided into private apartments. There was a short lived attempt to quarry iron ore in the parish in the early 1860s. The quarry ceased operation by 1863. It was on the west side of the railway to the north of Northampton Station and the site is now built over or covered by railway sidings. It had a horse -worked tramway to take the ore to the railway. Dallington is north-east of

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, south of Kings Heath and north-west of St James End.

Civil parish

On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Northampton and Duston. In 1931 the parish had a population of 360.

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* * Areas of Northampton Former civil parishes in Northamptonshire {{Northamptonshire-geo-stub