Newbottle, Northamptonshire
| Newbottle | |
  Newbottle Newbottle shown within Northamptonshire | |
| Population | 438 (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SP523369 |
| Civil parish | Newbottle |
| District | South Northamptonshire |
| Shire county | Northamptonshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Banbury |
| Postcode district | OX17 |
| Dialling code | 01295 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Daventry |
| Website | Welcome to the Charlton-cum-Newbottle Website! |
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Newbottle is a civil parish and largely deserted village in South Northamptonshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the market town of Brackley. It is close to the Oxfordshire county boundary and about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-east of the town of Banbury.
A stream that is a tributary of the River Cherwell forms the parish boundary to the north-west. The remainder of the parish boundary mostly follows field boundaries.
The parish includes the larger village of Charlton, about 0.5 miles (800 m) southeast of Newbottle. The 2001 census recorded a parish population of 438, most of whom live in Charlton.[1]
Archaeology
Rainsborough Camp is an early Iron Age hill fort in the southernmost part of the parish. Excavations in 1961-65 found that it had been inhabited and developed in phases between the 4th century BC and about 4 AD.[2]
Manor
Newbottle manor house is 16th century, built probably in the reign of Henry VIII[2] possibly by Peter Dormer, a member of the famous Buckinghamshire family, who held "Nubottel" at about that time when his daughter Elizabeth married the owner of Salford Hall, Salford Abbots.[3] The west wing was added in the 17th century and the library has panelling dating from about 1730.[2] The house has also an octagonal dovecote.[2]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint James has a tower built in about 1290-1210[4] and a Norman font. The present chancel is 13th century.[5] Between the nave and north aisle is a four-bay Decorated Gothic arcade.[2] The south aisle is a Perpendicular Gothic arcade addition.[5] The Gothic Revival east window in the chancel was inserted in 1865[5] and its stained glass is by C.E. Kempe.[2]
In the Middle Ages St. James' belonged to the Augustinian Dunstable Priory.[6] The Priory's annals for 1291 record it as receiving tithes from Newbottle.[6] It still possessed St. James' in 1535 when the Crown's bailiff valued the Priory's property and estates in preparation for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[6]
St. James' now forms a single benefice with SS Peter and Paul, King's Sutton.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Area selected: South Northamptonshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 312
- ↑ Phillimore, W.P.W., M.A., editor, The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569,London, 1888, p.8.
- ↑ Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 311-312
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 311
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Victoria County History, 1904, pages 371-377
- ↑ Archbishops' Council (2010). "St James, Newbottle w Charlton". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
- A History of the County of Bedford, Volume 1. Victoria County History. 1904. pp. 371–377.
External links
- Map sources for Newbottle, Northamptonshire
External links
Media related to Newbottle, Northamptonshire at Wikimedia Commons