East Haddon
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| East Haddon | |
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 The Red Lion, East Haddon | |
.svg)  East Haddon Location within Northamptonshire | |
| Population | 643 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SP6668 |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Northampton |
| Postcode district | NN6 |
| Dialling code | 01604 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
East Haddon is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is located eight miles from the town of Northampton and is close to stately home and estate of Althorp, home of the Spencer family, and surrounded by the villages of Holdenby, Long Buckby and Ravensthorpe.
The village was first mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Edonne, possibly meaning "heather-covered hill"; the prefix East was added in later years to distinguish it from the nearby village of West Haddon.[1] The oldest building in the village is St Mary's Church, parts of which date from the 12th century. East Haddon Hall was built in the 18th century. The village has many thatched cottages built in the local Northampton Sand ironstone. Other features include a thatched village pump which used to house a hand-drawn pump and a fire station which is now used as a bus shelter.
At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 643 people,[2] down from 651 at the 2001 census.[3]
Geography
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East Haddon lies approximately eight miles west of the town of Northampton and eight miles east of the town of Daventry. It is the surrounded by the villages of Holdenby, Long Bucky and Ravensthorpe, and nearby the stately home and estate of Althorp, home of the Spencer family. The village is served by the main A428 road, which passes the southern edge of East Haddon. Further afield, junctions 16 and 18 of the M1 motorway are approximately 8 miles from the village.
The parish covers c. 1080 hectares and lies between two east flowing streams between 180m and 90m above sea level.[4] Most of the lower ground is Upper Lias Clay but the main east to west ridge across the centre of the parish is Northampton Sand overlaid by patches of Boulder Clay and glacial sands and gravels.[4] The village falls within the Northamptonshire Uplands, a national character area, and possesses many typical characteristics, including the parish church, vernacular cottages of thatch and sandstone.
Facilities
[edit]East Haddon has a primary school, a church, a village hall and historical items dotted around it such as the old hall, the village pump and the old chapel. East Haddon has one pub, the Red Lion.[5] The village is in the Guilsborough School catchment area,[6] which is now in the top 1,000 schools in the country and in the top 10 in the county.
It is also home to the Show Gardens of Haddonstone, a company formed and based in the village since 1971.[7] The gardens have been featured in books by gardening writers Peter Coates[8] and Timothy Mowl.[9] The show gardens are on the site of the company's head offices.[10] The gardens are maintained throughout the year and contain Garden Ornament and Cast Stone architecture products that Haddonstone sell.[10] The gardens are also open for the National Garden Scheme, and raised over £1,000 in May 2012.[11]
East Haddon's relatively small population of around 600 people maintains a tennis club, a gardening club, a history society, a couple of successful cricket teams and three book clubs. A popular bridge group meet in the village hall weekly and the village hall is the venue for regular quiz nights and celebratory events. The village running club has about 35 members[12] and has been affiliated since 2002.[13] A book of village history was published at the same time.
Notable buildings
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The oldest building in the village is St Mary's Church. The church was built in the 12th century and restored in the 14th century. The village's bells were installed in 1621 and a fifth was added in 1731.[14] The first ever recorded peal on five bells was rung on New Year's Day 1756, lasting over three hours with 5,040 changes.[15]
East Haddon Hall is a Grade I listed building[16] and was built in 1780 for the Sawbridge Family by John Wagstaff Fun, a builder from Daventry. It was built to a design by John Johnson of Leicester.[17]
Notable people
[edit]- Long John Baldry, blues singer, was born at East Haddon Hall in 1941.[18]
References
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- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2911". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ Office for National Statistics: East Haddon CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 9 November 2009
- ^ a b https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol3/p96
- ^ The Red Lion Archived 2 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Guilsborough School
- ^ "Haddonstone Show Gardens". Trip Advisor. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ Coates, Peter (1988). The House & Garden Book of English Garden. Devon: Webb & Bower. p. 160. ISBN 0-86350-195-8.
- ^ Mowl, Timothy (2008). The Historic Gardens of England- Northamptonshire. Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-7524-4568-7.
- ^ a b Brosnan, Anna. "Haddonstone gardens open for charity". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ^ National Garden Scheme. "Haddonstone Show Gardens". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ^ Team East Haddon
- ^ MCAA
- ^ East Haddon Parish Council. "Village History". Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ Saint, David (19 July 2012). "Clan Dominated Village". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. p. 89.
- ^ "East Haddon Hall, East Haddon". Details of the listing for the Hall. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1998). Northamptonshire – The Buildings of England. Penguin Books. p. 198. ISBN 9780140710229.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Goldman, Lawrence (7 March 2013). Long John Baldry. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199671540. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
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