Hazlemere used to be a small hamlet in the ancient Desborough Hundred and the name is recorded as long ago as the 13th century.

The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham is a sinecure appointment which is used as a device allowing a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament ( MP ) to resign his or her seat.

Desborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England.

Modern Desborough is a residential centre, with new homes and industry being developed to the north of the old town centre.

The Desborough Mirror is an example of this.

Desborough is south-east of Market Harborough, north-west of Kettering and south-west of Corby.

The most important archeological find was the 1st Century Desborough Mirror which is now in the British Museum as is an Anglo-Saxon necklace found in the Paddock Lane area of the town which comprises gold beads, a gold cross and a red garnet.

Close by the church is the 18th century Church House the 19th century Desborough House with its stucco and Doric pillars, now the Services Club.

St Giles is part of the United Benefice of Desborough and Brampton Ash with Braybrooke and Dingley.

The Energos plant in Sarpsborg is of the type that is proposed for Desborough.

A group of local residents under the name of ' Fresh Air for Desborough ' is campaigning against this development.

It is located south of Desborough, southeast of Market Harborough, southwest of Corby and northwest of the larger town of Kettering.

Desborough hundred is one of three hundreds which became collectively known as the Chiltern hundreds around the 13th century, the others being Burnham hundred and Stoke hundred.

Shepperton is an English town in the borough of Spelthorne, Surrey which was in the former historic county of Middlesex south west of CentralLondon, bounded by the Thames at Desborough Island to the south and in the north-west bisected by the M3 motorway.

Desborough Sailing Club is based here with its own dinghy basin, private inlet and secluded reach of the river Thames and international medal-winner training club Queen Mary Reservoir Sailing Club lies between Shepperton and Ashford.

Kettering constituency is a semi-rural constituency, predominantly based around the towns of Kettering, Desborough, Rothwell and Burton Latimer within the borough of Kettering ( all of which is in the constituency ) but, additionally, includes wide tracts of rural land.

The witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins, John Desborough, parliamentarian general, and William Prynne, lawyer, all make appearances, and the character of Sidrophel is variously seen as either William Lilly or Paul Neale.

Desborough hundred comprised the following ancient parishes and hamlets, ( formerly medieval vills ):

In 1905, Grenfell was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, a title he took from the old hundred of Desborough in Buckinghamshire.

The three hundreds of Stoke, Desborough, and Burnham, which are situated in the wooded Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, have been Crown property since at least the 13th century.

With the return of King Charles II in May 1660, Kelsey felt safer removing himself to the Netherlands, but with others including John Desborough was instructed to return to England in 1666.

He was born in Desborough, Northamptonshire, England.

** John Desborough, English soldier and politician ( d. 1680 )

Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.

The new line ran from Wigston toward Market Harborough, through Desborough, Kettering, Wellingborough and Bedford, then on the Bedford to Hitchin Line joining the GNR at Hitchin to run into King's Cross.

The forest's original boundaries stretched from Market Harborough through to Stamford and swallowed up Corby, Kettering, Desborough, Rothwell, Thrapston and Oundle.

As vice-chancellor he acted with readiness and spirit when a Royalist rising in Wiltshire broke out in 1655 ; his adherence to Cromwell, however, was by no means slavish, for he drew up, at the request of Desborough and Pride, a petition against his receiving the kingship.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough was an all round sportsman, politician and public servant who performed many good works for the town A number of notable figures can be counted amongst Maidenhead's current and former residents.

Essayist and novelist Nick Hornby was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School ( now Desborough School ), as were children's television presenter and radio show host Toby Anstis, author and broadcaster John O ' Farrell, athlete Mark Richardson and well known " Dragon " Peter Jones.

These were of the House, and to them were joined from without Major-General Lambert, Col. Desborough, and Col. Berry

Cromwell and four other officers – Lambert, John Desborough, Harrison and Matthew Tomlinson – were then co-opted as members.

In local government, Kettering falls within the areas of Northamptonshire County Council and Kettering Borough Council, which incorporates the small, satellite towns of Burton Latimer, Desborough and Rothwell.

Kettering's nearest towns are Desborough, Burton Latimer and Rothwell with the larger towns of Corby and Wellingborough a bit further away.

The historian William Desborough Cooley's The Negro Land of the Arabs Examined and Explained ( 1841 ) has excerpts of translations of Khaldun's work that were not affected by French colonial ideas.

He was first elected as a Desborough Town Councillor, then Kettering Borough Councillor, representing the Desborough Loatland Ward from 1977 to 1997.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court.

Wright was educated at Desborough County Primary School, then Kettering Grammar School ( now known as the Tresham Institute although the old building has been recently knocked down ) on Windmill Avenue in Kettering.

Monster Manual V was released in July 2007, with David Noonan as lead designer, and additional design by Creighton Broadhurst, Jason Bulmahn, David Chart, B. Matthew Conklin III, Jesse Decker, James " Grim " Desborough, Rob Heinsoo, Sterling Hershey, Tim Hitchcock, Luke Johnson, Nicholas Logue, Mike McArtor, Aaron Rosenberg, Robert J. Schwalb, Rodney Thompson, and Wil Upchurch.

Believing that after the panel's decision his position was " untenable ", he resigned as an MP ( by the traditional procedural device of becoming Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham ), thereby forcing a by-election.

John Desborough was quartermaster.

Two " divisions " i. e. half-regiments of three troops each, one from each of Fairfax's and Whalley's regiments, under Major Christopher Bethel and Major John Desborough, mounted a remarkable charge at the Battle of Langport, where they galloped up a narrow lane and attacked the Royalist Army of Lord Goring in front, putting the entire army to flight.