Woodend, Northamptonshire

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Woodend
Northamptonshire
Location
Grid reference: SP615491
Location: 52°8’12"N, 1°6’6"W
Data
Post town: Towcester
Postcode: NN12
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire

Woodend is a small village in Northamptonshire, sitting close to the Leicestershire border, 4 miles west of Towcester.

The village is in effect a hamlet in the parish of Blakesley, in which parish it remains: the parish church in the latter village just to the north (now part of the delightfully named Lambfold Benefice).[1] Woodend does have its own civil parish though.

Woodend is one of the "Thankful Villages"; those few which watched its men go to the Great War of 1914-1918, and saw all of them return safely.

There is a barrow about 250 yards east of Green's Park Farm[2]

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References

  1. Lambfold benefice
  2. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 106–7. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3. 

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