East Haddon
| East Haddon | |
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 The Red Lion, East Haddon | |
.svg)  East Haddon Location within Northamptonshire | |
| Population | 643 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SP6668 |
| Unitary authority | |
| 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 approximately midway between the towns of Northampton and Daventry, with each town being around 8 miles to the east and west of the village respectively. East Haddon is close to Althorp, the stately home and estate of the Spencer family, and surrounded by the villages of Ravensthorpe to the north, Holdenby to the east, Great Brington to the south, and Long Buckby to the west.
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.
At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 643 people,[2] down from 651 at the 2001 census.[3]
Geography
[edit]East Haddon lies approximately midway between the towns of Northampton and Daventry, with each town being around 8 miles to the east and west of the village respectively. East Haddon is close to Althorp, the stately home and estate of the Spencer family, and surrounded by the villages of Ravensthorpe to the north, Holdenby to the east, Great Brington to the south, and Long Buckby to the west.
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 of the area.
Governance
[edit]The village has its own parish council and falls under the Long Buckby ward for local elections. East Haddon is part of the Daventry parliamentary constituency, which has been represented by a member of the Conservative Party since 1974.
The village is currently governed by West Northamptonshire Council. Before local government changes, the local district council was Daventry District Council in the former Northamptonshire County Council area.
Education
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The East Haddon CEVC Primary School is the only school in the village; it was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2020. The village falls within the catchment area of the Guilsborough Academy.[5]
Economy
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East Haddon is home to Haddonstone, a stone supplier based in the village since 1971.[6] The show gardens in the village are on the site of the company's head offices,[7] and have been featured in books by gardening writers Peter Coates[8] and Timothy Mowl.[9] The gardens are maintained throughout the year and contain garden ornament and cast stone architecture products sold by the company.[7] The gardens are also open for the National Garden Scheme, and raised over £1,000 in May 2012.[10]
In 2015, Grovelands Business Park was established to the west of the village from the ruins of old agricultural buildings. The site provides office facilities to several local businesses. A solar farm was added in 2024. There are plans afoot to build additional office space, a cafe and a gymnasium at the site.[11]
Recreation
[edit]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.[citation needed]
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] The Old Chapel on Holdenby Road was built much later in 1811.[16]
There are a number of thatched stone cottages within the village, Historic England-listed examples include Thatched House on Main Street,[17] and Gardeners House (formerly within East Haddon Hall grounds) on Ravensthorpe Road, which both date back to the 17th century.[18] The Old House, Walcott House, Hall Farmhouse and Hall Farm Cottage on Main Street are also all listed stone buildings and date back to the 18th century.[19][20][21][22]
A key feature of the village is the old thatched water pump which was constructed in 1550 and in use until 1920. A stone water tower, now located in a show garden for Haddonstone, was built in 1890. Haddonstone also occupies the Forge House on Church Lane, which is listed by Historic England and dates back to the 17th century.[23]
East Haddon Hall is a Grade I listed building and was built in 1780 for the Sawbridge family by John Wagstaff, a builder from Daventry.[24] It was built to a design by John Johnson of Leicester.[25] The house was originally set in gardens laid out by garden designers Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens in 1897, of which only fragments of the formal rose gardens and a sundial remain.[26][27] The gates and Hall Flats to the south of the hall were built in the 18th century;[28] the Flats were originally part of the old stable block.[29]
The Red Lion building can be traced back to 1765. In 1908, it became an inn and continues to trade as a pub, restaurant and hotel. The Red Lion Cottage within the grounds is listed and was built in 1695.[30]
Transport
[edit]East Haddon is served by the main A428 road, which passes the southern edge of the village. Further afield, junctions 16 and 18 of the M1 motorway are approximately eight miles from the village.
Long Buckby railway station is the closest railway station with services by West Midlands Trains. It lies on the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line running between Birmingham New Street and London Euston. The former Althorp Park railway station was situated to the south of East Haddon, but closed in 1960 and was later demolished.
Regular Stagecoach Midlands bus services connect East Haddon to Northampton, Long Buckby, West Haddon, Crick and Rugby.
There is a network of footpaths which connect the village up with neighbouring villages as well as two long-distance footpaths, Macmillan Way and Via Beata, which both skirt the eastern side of the parish.
Notable people
[edit]- Long John Baldry, blues singer, was born at East Haddon Hall in 1941.[31]
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
- ^ Guilsborough School
- ^ "Haddonstone Show Gardens". Trip Advisor. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ a b Brosnan, Anna. "Haddonstone gardens open for charity". Retrieved 11 October 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.
- ^ National Garden Scheme. "Haddonstone Show Gardens". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ^ https://www.grovelandsbusinesspark.com/
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://www.easthaddonparishcouncil.gov.uk/east-haddon-history-society/page25.html
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067068?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067070
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067065?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067066?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067064?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067107?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1038293?section=official-list-entry
- ^ "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.
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- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067106?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1356897?section=official-list-entry
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031830
- ^ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067067?section=official-list-entry
- ^ Goldman, Lawrence (7 March 2013). Long John Baldry. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199671540. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
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