Nearby The Stubbs is a wood belonging to the Woodland Trust, a UK conservation charity.
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Some say that it was the Churchyard of St Mary’s and not St Giles, Stoke Poges that was the inspiration for Thomas Gray’s famous elegy “In an English Churchyard”.
The village of Everdon is located about 6 km (4 miles) south-east of the town of Daventry.
Everdon came from the village of Everdon, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, but other than the fact that he was related to a locally prominent family of Thorp, nothing else is known of his ancestry.
In 1922, he married Violet, the only daughter of Major H. Hawkins, of Everdon, Northamptonshire, and they had one daughter.
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Some three storey (four bedroomed) houses were built in Deedmore Road of a more traditional brick design, these are similar structures to the houses in Foxglove Close and Leeder Close off Everdon Road, Holbrooks built around the same time and are early town houses with a utility room and storage on the ground floor, living area on the first floor and bedrooms above.