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Encyclopedia Britannica



OAKHAM

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 935 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OAKHAM , a market town, and the county town of Rutland, England, 94 M. N. by W. of London by the Midland railway. Pop. (1901) 3294. The church of All Saints ranges in style from Early English to Perpendicular, belonging in
appearance
  mainly to the latter style. Of Oakham Castle, founded in the reign of
Henry
  II., the principal remnant is the notable Norman
hall
 , used as the county
hall
 . The manor came in the time of935
Henry
  II. into the hands of Walcheline de
Ferrers
 , and subsequently passed, through many owners, to the duchy of Bucking-ham, whence it descended to the earls of Winchelsea. A peculiar custom attaching to the manor is to claim a horseshoe from every peer who, for the first time, passes through the town. Flore's
House
  in the main street is an interesting building dating from the 13th century. Oakham school was endowed as a grammar school by Robert Johnson, archdeacon of Leicester, in 1584; it now has classical and modern sides. Not far from the town are the kennels of the Cottesmore hunt.


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