These villages and parishes sent men to fight in the Great War, 1914-1918, and all of them came back alive. In 1696 the non-conformist cleric and hymn-writer Isaac Watts (1674--1748) was appointed minister to the Hartopp family of Stoke Newington and Freeby. He preached at the Congregational chapel in the village until 1699.
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