West Haddon
| West Haddon | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church in the village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP629717 |
| Location: | 52°20’24"N, 1°4’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,718 (2011) |
| Post town: | Northampton |
| Postcode: | NN6 |
| Dialling code: | 01788 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
West Haddon is a village and parish in Northamptonshire, about 11 miles north-west of Northampton and seven miles east of Rugby and just off the A428 road which by-passes the village. The population of civil parish was 1,718 at the 2011 Census.[1] The villages of West Haddon and Crick were by-passed by the A428 main road from Rugby to Northampton when the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal was built in 1996 near junction 18 of the M1 motorway, three miles west of the village.
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History
The fields of West Haddon were the location for an enclosure riot in 1765. An advertisement was made in the county newspaper for a football game that was to be played in those fields. The football game was a means to assemble a mob which tore down fences and burned them, protesting against the laws that were then being enacted that allowed wealthy landowners to lay claim to land that was once public land.[2]
Notable buildings
The Historic England website contains details of a total of 32 listed buildings in the parish of West Haddon, all of which are Grade II except for All Saints’ Church which is Grade I.[3] These include:
- All Saints’ Church, High Street
- Redmoor House, Guilsborough Road – mid 17th-century farmhouse.
- Brownstones, 2 High Street – former Vicarage, mainly built in the mid-18th century, with a 1612 datestone that may not be original.
- The Hall, 14 Station Road – an early 19th-century house with alterations made in 1946.
Facilities
It also has a post Office and a general store. There is one public house, The Crown, which was recently refurbished (The Sheaf Inn closed for business in 2013), and also The Pytchley Hotel, named after the local Pytchley hunt.
Sport
The village has many provisions for sport, with two large playing fields, used for men's football, at the north end of the village, a small children's play area, a tennis court, a pétanque area, a cricket pitch with pavilion and car park, and links to numerous countryside paths, such as the Jurassic Way. In the middle of the village there is a bowls lawn.
School
The village's primary school is West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School.[4] Details of a series of reports on the school can be found in the relevant section of the Ofsted website.[5] There were 201 pupils on the roll at the time of the inspection in January 2012.
Notable residents
- Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, former Private Secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130353&c=West+Haddon&d=16&e=62&g=6451060&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1468317622108&enc=1. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ↑ Neeson, J M (1993). Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 188–208. ISBN 0-521-56774-2.
- ↑ "Historic England – The List". https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
- ↑ West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School
- ↑ "West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School". Ofsted. http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/122002. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
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