Thorpe Mandeville is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire. The hamlet of Lower Thorpe is just north of the village.
The village's name means 'Outlying farm/settlement'. The village was held by Richard de Amundevill in 1252.[2]
The population of the parish has grown slowly over the centuries. It was recorded as 137 in the 1801 Census, 178 in the 1991 Census,[3] 194 in the 2001 Census[4] and 327 (including Edgcote) in the 2011 Census.[1]
Manors
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Thorp. "Mandeville" is a corruption of Amundeville. Richard de Amundeville was lord of the manor in the 13th century.[3]
In 1346 a house and 9 acres (3.6 ha) of land at Thorpe Mandeville were listed amongst the estates of the Augustinianpriory at Chacombe.[5]
High on the east wall of the west tower is a small stone relief of a man[6][9] under a hood mould. On the north wall of the north aisle is a 14th-century painting of Saint Christopher carrying Jesus.[6][9] On the west wall of the north aisle is a monument to Sir Thomas Kirton (died 1601) and his wife Margaret (died 1597).[6][9] The church is a Grade I listed building.[9]
Thorpe Mandeville had a Church of England school that was built in 1864 and enlarged in 1898.[13] It was closed in 1967 and the building has been the village hall since 1970.[13]
The Hill, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Thorpe Mandeville village, is a house designed by C.F.A. Voysey and built in 1897–98 for a member of the Hope Brooke family.[6]
In 1900 the Great Central Railway completed a line linking its new main line at Culworth Junction with the Great Western Railway at Banbury Junction. The link line passed through the northern part of Thorpe Mandeville parish. In 1911 the Great Central opened Chalcombe Road Halt 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Thorpe Mandeville and in 1913 it added Eydon Road Halt at Culworth 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Thorpe Mandeville. British Railways closed both halts in 1956 and closed the line between Culworth Junction and Banbury Junction in 1966.
The planned High Speed 2 railway line will pass through the area. The House of Lords Select Committee on the bill to construct the line reported that the hamlet of Lower Thorpe would be virtually destroyed by the construction of a viaduct.[14]
The Three Conies
Amenities
The village has a public house, the Three Conies, that is controlled by the Hook Norton Brewery.[15] Thorpe Mandeville is on an important former drovers' road called Banbury Lane. The Three Conies was built in the 17th century as a drovers' inn, providing overnight accommodation for drovers and their livestock.[16]
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