Naseby
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Naseby is a village in West Northamptonshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 687.[1]
The village is 14 mi (23 km) north of Northampton, 13.3 mi (21.4 km) northeast of Daventry, and 7 mi (11 km) south of Market Harborough.
Geography
The village sits in a commanding position on one of the highest parts of the Northamptonshire Uplands, close to the county border with Leicestershire.
History
Early history
The original settlement probably owes its existence to its geography; the village lay in a strong defensive position. In the 6th century a Saxon named Hnaef established the settlement with the name of Hnaefes-Burgh ("fortified place of Hnaef"). Evidence for these origins came in the form of a 19th-century discovery of an Anglo-Saxon trefoil-headed brooch which is now in the collection of the British Museum.
Domesday Book to the Black Death
In 1086 Naseby appeared in the
During this period the village grew. In 1349, the Black Death, which wiped out a third of the population of England, attacked the village and greatly reduced its population, with parts becoming abandoned altogether. Extensive earthworks in the fields adjacent to parts of the village show the outlines of lost lanes and the outlines of buildings and enclosures which existed before the Black Death.
Battle of Naseby
The Battle of Naseby took place on 14 June 1645, during the
A naval warship during the Commonwealth period was named the Naseby in honour of the battle; after the Restoration the ship was renamed HMS Royal Charles.
18th century
During the 18th century, Naseby continued as an agricultural community and during this time several fine
Rev John Mastin was vicar of Naseby from 1783 until his death in 1829. He was the author of “The History and Antiquities of Naseby, in the County of Northampton”, which was the earliest published history of the parish. He also left a manuscript account of his life. The texts of both these works are included in a 2004 publication by the Northamptonshire Record Society.[3]
Nineteenth century
In 1822 the Enclosure commissioners allocated the open land around the village to two landowners, who duly fenced off their newly acquired fields. This action deprived many of the villagers of their traditional plots of land that surrounded the village, that had for years allowed them to grow crops and graze their cattle and sheep. This action did not adversely affect the community as much as it did in other villages; one reason may have been that the village had other trades. A survey of the time lists 26 different occupations and trades in the village.
1837 baptisms
The local friendly society attracted non-conformists from the end of the eighteenth century and in 1825, a Methodist chapel was erected.[4] The population continued to grow: thus between 1831 and 1841 it increased from 707 to 898 (including 48 visitors to the annual feast).[4] In 1837, following the passing of the
Victorian building boom
Until around 1870, most buildings (except for the church, chapel, school, and the three houses from the Georgian period) were made of mud walls and cob with thatched roofs. During the 1870s Lord Clifden had most of the cottages demolished and replaced with new red-brick cottages, some of which were semi-detached, to house his estate workers. This gave Naseby its well-known Victorian appearance. All these Victorian houses still survive to this day, along with two remaining 17th-century cob and thatched cottages.
Churches
The two churches in Naseby are:
- All Saints' Church, Church Street
- Naseby Methodist Church, Church Street[5]
River sources
Naseby and the plateau of land towards Sibbertoft form a watershed and contain the sources of four rivers flowing west, south and east.
In the front garden of Manor Farm at the junction of Church Street, Newlands and Welford Road is a cone-shaped monument which sits in a depression. This is the source of the River Avon, Warwickshire.
The northern tributary of the River Nene (Brampton Arm) arises by the Thornby road to the west of the village (the main Source being at Arbury Hill (SP 542 581) near Staverton, Northamptonshire).
The source of the River Ise can be found close to Sibbertoft Road to the north of Naseby.
The source of the River Welland can be found in fields close to Welland Rise, Sibbertoft village, three miles to the north.
Notable buildings
The Historic England website contains details of a total of ten listed buildings in the parish of Naseby, all of which are Grade II apart from All Saints' Church, which is Grade II*.[6] They are:
- All Saints' Church, Church Street
- Naseby Hall
- Shuckburgh House, Church Street
- Monument, Clipston Road
- Caton Cottage, High Street
- Cromwell Cottage, High Street
- Avon Well, south of Manor Farmhouse, Newlands
- Manor Farm, Newlands
- Whipping Cross, Newlands, Haselbech & Clipston Road
- Monument, Sibbertoft Road
Details of some of these and other notable buildings in the village appear below.
Within the village at the junction of Church Street and Gynwell, close to the Methodist Chapel (1825) there is the shaft of the old whipping post dating to 1203. In the Middle Ages this stood opposite the church in what was the marketplace and is now the village street called Newlands.
Also to be found in Newlands are examples of the Victorian cottages from around 1870, which continue down the right-hand side of High Street; further down the street to the right is one of the two surviving cob-thatched cottages. It was built around 1630 and is now called Cromwell Cottage. Next door to the cottage in School Lane is the village school, built in 1843.
Further down School Lane are more Victorian cottages. At the end of School Lane with its intersection with Church Lane is the village
Transport
Naseby is 2.4 mi (3.9 km) from Junction 2 of the
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
- ^ Vialls, Christine; Collins, Kay (2004). A Georgian Country Parson: The Rev. John Mastin of Naseby. Northamptonshire Record Society.
- ^ a b c Howcutt, Francis (1989). "Naseby – The Great Baptism Round-up, 1837". Footprints. Northamptonshire Family History Society.
- ^ "Naseby Methodist Church". Methodist Church, Harborough Methodist Circuit. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Historic England – The List". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
External links
- Naseby Parish Council
- Naseby:- A short guide to the village and its history by A.J. Crowley and E.H. Westaway