Milton Malsor
| Milton Malsor | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Milton Malsor village sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP734556 |
| Location: | 52°11’38"N, -0°55’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 761 (2011) |
| Post town: | Northampton |
| Postcode: | NN7 |
| Dialling code: | 01604 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
Milton Malsor is a village in Northamptonshire, four miles south of Northampton town centre. Junction 15 of the M1 motorway is two miles east by road.
The village's name is from the Old English middel tun, meaning 'Middle Farm or settlement'. The second part of the name appears to be from "Malsoures", the name of a prominent local family added much later.
The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 761.
History
An early Bronze Age cinerary urn was discovered in 1965, by the driver of a mechanical digger,
The first recorded mention of the village is in the Domesday Book of 1086, which records that there were two manors with lands at Milton: William Peverel and Goisfrid Alselin.[1]
The field known as 'the Leys' shows clear signs of 18th-century pre-enclosure strip farming: the mediæval open field system ended with inclosures in 1779, along with neighbouring Collingtree.
The small industrial estate in Gayton Road is on an old clay quarry; the playing and football fields in Collingtree Road are on the sites of sand quarries - in the latter case mostly filled with clay spoil from the 1950s construction of the M1. Other sand quarries were once found around the village.
About the village
A stream runs north-west through the village, partly in a conduit but visible from Collingtree Road and Rectory Lane as it flows north through the field known as 'The Dip' after an old sheep dip the remains of which are still visible. In Spring 1998 this flooded, causing minor damage to some houses. The stream flows north joining with others from the east and south flowing south and west around Hunsbury Hill. It then joins the River Nene at Upton, west of Northampton.
The Grand Union Canal and its Northampton arm, built in 1815 passes nearby. There is a marina just off the road to Gayton. There are 17 locks on the arm, taking the canal downhill into Northampton and to join the River Nene east of the town. It takes about two hours for a boat to travel through.
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There are two pubs: "The Greyhound" on Towcester Road, and "The Compass" on Green Street. The Compass has been permanently closed since 2020. The village hall stands on the High Street opposite the green and War Memorial.
There are three working farms in the parish including a free-range egg farm.
Milton Malsor has a retirement care home, Holly House. The village has two small industrial estates.
Churches
The parish church, the Church of the Holy Cross, has 12th-century origins but mostly is of the late 13th cetury to mid-14th century. The church has a crenellated tower, and later battlements and pinnacles. There are monuments to Mrs Sapcotes Harington, d. 1619, and Richard Dodwell, d. 1726.
It is part of the Diocese of Peterborough, and is grouped with the "Three Parishes Group" together with the churches of the nearby villages of Collingtree and Courteenhall, and since 2010 with four other parishes including Blisworth and Stoke Bruerne.
There is also a Baptist Chapel in Green Street. It was built in 1827, founded by Thomas Marriott (1789 to 1876) and who is buried in the churchyard of the chapel.[2]
Society
- Local history: Milton Malsor Historical Society
- Scouts and Brownies
- Women's Institute
- Sport:
- Football: Milton FC[3]
- Indoor bowls
- Badminton
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Milton Malsor) |
- Milton Malsor Historical Society
- The late Rev George Hubbard, Rector in the late 1950s, early 1960s Old pictures of the village including church and Rectory from his old family photo album
- Pictures of a 'Living Nativity' Event held in the village in December 2003 and broadcast live on BBC Radio Northampton
References
- ↑ Malsor Milton Malsor in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Marks, Peter (2006). Thomas Marriott and the Baptists of Milton Malsor. Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire: Milton Malsor Historical Society.
- ↑ [http://www.miltonfc.co.uk Milton FC
- "The Story of Milton Malzor" sic, Revd B Edward Evans, MA, Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector. See reference to electronic copy in footnotes.
- "Swim Ginger", Revd Malcolm Deacon, ISBN 0-9523188-2-2, recollections, 1940–2005, of a resident and United Reformed Church Minister.
- "Milton Malsor - History Revisited", Alan Digby, an extensive pictorial history of the village in the 20th century by a resident born and bred in the village. Includes sections on World Wars I and II including some curious archives of the village Home Guard during 1939-1945. Also contains a picture of the Milton Bronze Age Cinerary Urn recovered in 1965 and referred to above. Sadly, Alan died in 2017.
- Sundry papers referred to and published by the Historical Society - see reference above. Some of the publications referred to above are available from the society