Editing Everdon (section)

==History==
The villages name means '[[Wild boar]] hill'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Everdon|title=Key to English Place-names}}</ref>

[[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 {{convert|6|acre|m2}} 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, Eure|Bernay]], in [[Normandy]], and was granted lordship of the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Everdon. Like most [[alien priories]], it was dissolved in 1415 under an act of Parliament{{which|date=August 2024}} of [[Henry V of England|Henry V]]. In 1440 [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] granted the property of the priory to the newly founded Eton College, which established a [[manor house]] on the site.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40263 Victoria County History: Northamptonshire, volume 2, chapter 46: the Priory of Everdon]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40226#s1 Victoria County History: Northamptonshire, volume 2, chapter 8: the Priory of St. Augustine, Daventry]</ref>

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| short_title           = Everdon Inclosure Act 1764
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| parliament            = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title            = An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common Fields, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Waste Grounds, of and in the Manor and Parish of Everdon, otherwise Great Everdon, and Little Everdon, in the County of Northampton.
| year                  = 1764
| citation              = [[4 Geo. 3]]. c. ''43'' {{small|Pr.}}
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| royal_assent          = 5 April 1764
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The land was [[enclosure|enclosed]] by the '''{{visible anchor|Everdon Inclosure Act 1764}}''' ([[4 Geo. 3]]. c. ''43'' {{small|Pr.}}):

: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.