The first Baronet inherited an estate at Grendon, North Warwickshire, in 1798 and Grendon Hall (demolished 1935) became the family seat.
He held the living of Grendon, Northamptonshire, which was in the gift of King's Hall, from 21 September 1538, to November, 1541, and successively, fellowships of King's Hall, St. Catharine's Hall, and of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Some Second World War memories by a village resident of being straffed in the fields by a Nazi German controlled Spitfire can be found here
The old village of Grendon lies on the north-western tip of Warwickshire, divided from Leicestershire by a small stream and by the River Anker.
Released by EMI in 1974, directed by Claude Whatham and produced by Richard Pilbrow, the film starred Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser in the main adult roles and Sophie Neville (Titty), Zanna Hamilton (Susan), Simon West (John) & Stephen Grendon (Roger) as the Swallows.
The Wollaston School catchment area includes the villages of Bozeat, Brafield-on-the-Green, Castle Ashby, Chadstone, Cogenhoe, Denton, Easton Maudit, Great Houghton, Grendon, Irchester, Little Houghton, Strixton, Whiston, Wollaston and Yardley Hastings.