Clay Coton

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Clay Coton
Northamptonshire
Clay Coton - geograph.org.uk - 59876.jpg
Former Church of St Andrew
Location
Grid reference: SP5977
Location: 52°23’13"N, 1°7’44"W
Data
Population: 271  (2011)
Post town: Northampton
Postcode: NN6
Dialling code: 01788
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Daventry

Clay Coton is a village and parish in Northamptonshire. The population of the civil parish (including Elkington and Stanford-on-Avon) at the 2011 census was 271.[1] The nearest large town is Rugby, Warwickshire, about seven miles away by road. The village is close to the M1 motorway with its junction (known as Catthorpe Interchange with the M6 and A14 road which runs very close to the north.

The village is dominated by the mediæval former church of St Andrew. Built in 1340, it was restored by Edmund Francis Law in 1866 but fell into disuse in the 1950s and was renovated as a private house in 2000. However, the surrounding graveyard still has public access.[2]

Until 2002, despite the small size of the village, it included a pub, called the 'Fox and Hounds'; Like the church, it has now been converted to a private house.

References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122049&c=Clay+Coton&d=16&e=62&g=6451078&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1467294783487&enc=1. Retrieved 30 June 2016. 
  2. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 150. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3. 
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