Thorpe Malsor
| Thorpe Malsor | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP834789 |
| Location: | 52°24’9"N, 0°46’29"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 145 (2011) |
| Post town: | Kettering |
| Postcode: | NN14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Kettering |
Thorpe Malsor is a village in Northamptonshire found two miles west of Kettering. The population at the 2011 Census was 145.
Parish church
The parish church is All Saints, which was built late in the 13th and early in the 14th centuries.[1] In 1877 the Gothic Revival architect Clapton Crabb Rolfe restored the church,[2] with Harry Hems of Exeter undertaking the carving.[1]
All Saints parish is now part of a single benefice with the parishes of Broughton, Cransley and Loddington.[3]
History
The name 'Thorpe' is the Old English þorp, which means ither 'village' or 'outlying farm/settlement'. The village was held by Fucher Malesoures (Malesouveres) in the twelfth century, giving it the suffix 'Malsor'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the manor is recorded as 'Alidetorp,[4] the prefix potentially from a shortening of the Old English female individual name, Æðelgyð'.[5]
The village well in the middle of the main street was sunk in 1589.[1] Thorpe Malsor Hall is a Jacobean house that was refenestrated in the 18th century and enlarged in 1817.[1]
Ironstone quarrying
Thorpe Malsor sits in the Northamptonshire ironstone field. Between 1903 and 1949, iron ore was quarried from extensive, shallow pits on the north and west sides of the village. These pits were connected to the ironworks north of Kettering, by branch of the narrow gauge Kettering Ironstone Railway. The first pit was close to the village on the west side. The last was further west. The railway crossed the valley north-east of the village on a substantial viaduct. The branch was removed in 1949. The railway was worked by steam locomotives including an unusual double ended locomotive built by the Sentinel Company which had a central cab and a boiler and chimney at each end. This was mostly used on the Thorpe Malsor branch. Steam quarrying machines were introduced from 1918 and diesel ones from 1944.[6][7]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 428.
- ↑ Saint 1970, pp. 53ff.
- ↑ "All Saints". https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/16651/.
- ↑ Malsor Thorpe Malsor in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Thorpe+Malsor.
- ↑ Quine, Dan (2016). Four East Midlands Ironstone Tramways Part Two: Kettering. 106. Garndolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire: Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review. https://narrowgaugeandindustrial.co.uk/.
- ↑ Tonks, Eric (1991). The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands: Part V the Kettering Area. Cheltenham: Runpast. pp. 176–203. ISBN 1-870754-05-0.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3page 428
- Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford Architects". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) XXXV: 53 ff. http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%2035/Saint.doc. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
