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Preston, the priests farm, was also known formerly as Preston juxta Northampton and Preston Juxta Piddington, it is first referred to in the Domesday Book (1086) as Prestone.

At first glance the church at Denton might look medieval but in fact all of it, apart from the 13th century tower, was rebuilt in 1827/28 by Charles Squirhill.

Whilst the tower is medieval the church was so rebuilt in the 17th and 18th century that that is its overriding appearance.

The church dates from around 1300 but it is the intervention of the Spencer family of nearby Althorp that transformed the medieval building. Sir John Spencer (d1522) rebuilt the chancel and commenced the funerary chapel that lies adjacent to it. Further intervention of both church and chapel was carried out by Edward Bloor in 1840s.

The church which lies adjacent to the House but which it antedates by some 400 years, must have been used by the Bishops of Coventry whose seat this was before the advent of the Comptons in the 16th century.

Externally a particularly handsome medieval church with full square tower with fine double bell openings, all dating from around 1300.

Well done if you have got here, the church is tucked away in the estate village that lies behind Courteenhall Hall.

A very early church with a Norman tower incorporating a late Saxon door case and, inside, a Norman font.

The first documentary evidence for the existence of Bugbrooke is the Domesday Book of 1086, although there is no reference to there being a church then.

A 12th century church in the village of Nether Heyford.