Blakesley

This article is about the place. For people, see Blakesley (surname).

Blakesley
Blakesley is located in Northamptonshire
Blakesley
Blakesley
Location within Northamptonshire
Population508 (2011)
OS grid referenceSP625502
• London70 miles (113 km)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTowcester
Postcode districtNN12
Dialling code01327
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Northamptonshire
52°08′47″N 1°05′09″W / 52.1465°N 1.0857°W / 52.1465; -1.0857

Blakesley is a village in the West Northamptonshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) west of Towcester. It is about 400 feet (120 m) above sea level according to Ordnance Survey. North-west of Blakesley, and now contiguous with it, is the hamlet of Quinbury End.

History

The name is believed to have come from an Old English place-name meaning "Blaecwulf's wood or clearing" (or "black wolf's wood/clearing").[1] Over time the name contracted to the present form. The name of the brook running through the village, the Black Ouse, was derived from the name of the village, and not the other way round as sometimes claimed.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census it had a population of 492,[2] increasing to 508 at the 2011 census.[3]

Facilities

Blakesley has a pub named the Bartholomew Arms, a primary school and its own village shop with a post office. Blakesley Church of England Primary School in the village is in the catchment area of Sponne School in Towcester.

Buildings

Blakesley Hall

Main article: Blakesley Hall (Northamptonshire)

The village was the location of Blakesley Hall, a 13th-century Manor House. It was owned by Charles William Bartholomew, but demolished in 1957-58.

Parish Church

The parish church, built in the style of the Early English Period, dates from the late 13th century, the first parish priest having been recorded as a certain William of Melchbourne, who took office in 1275. The church is dedicated to St Mary. Since 2006 it has formed part of the Lambfold benefice[4] along with the parishes of Adstone, Maidford, Litchborough and Farthingstone. There are memorials to Matthew Swetenham (D.1416), Bowbearer to Henry IV, and also William Wattes (d.1614).[5]

Other buildings

The church building itself forms the centre of a number of obviously ecclesiastical buildings probably related to a religious community. South-east of the church is a house dated 1689. Glebe farm, west of the church has a Perpendicular doorway and part of a Perpendicular window. The Sycamores, south of the church is dated 1670. Kendall House is 18th-century and a former Inn. Seawell farm is part of the Grafton Estate of 1840.[5]

Blakesley railway station

Main article: Blakesley railway station

The station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJ) served the village from 1873 to 1962. It was linked to nearby Blakesley Hall by a miniature railway which ran from a terminal adjacent to the station. Nothing remains of the building.

Barrow

There is a Barrow at Woodend about 250 yards east of Green's Park Farm.[5]

References

  1. ^ University of Nottingham - guide to English place names[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ National Ststistics, published 28 April 2004, accessed 2 April 2010
  3. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  4. ^ The Lambfold benefice
  5. ^ a b c Pevsner, Nikolaus (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. Revised by Cherry, Bridget. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 106–7. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
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