West Haddon

West Haddon

All Saints Church in the village
West Haddon
West Haddon shown within Northamptonshire
Population 1,718 (Including Winwick.2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP629717
• London 81 miles (130 km)
Civil parish
  • West Haddon
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NORTHAMPTON
Postcode district NN6 7
Dialling code 01788
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament

West Haddon is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire, England about 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Northampton and 7 miles (11 km) east of Rugby and just off the A428 road which by-passes the village. The population of civil parish was 1,718 at the 2011 Census.[1] The villages of West Haddon and Crick were by-passed by the A428 main road from Rugby to Northampton when the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) was built in 1996 near junction 18 of the M1 Motorway, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the village.

History

The fields of West Haddon were the location for an enclosure riot in 1765. An advertisement was made in the county newspaper for a football game that was to be played in those fields. The football game was a means to assemble a mob which tore down fences and burned them, protesting against the laws that were then being enacted that allowed wealthy landowners to lay claim to land that was once public land.[2]

Notable buildings

The Historic England website contains details of a total of 32 listed buildings in the parish of West Haddon, all of which are Grade II except for All Saints’ Church which is Grade I.[3] These include:

  • All Saints’ Church, High Street
  • Redmoor House, Guilsborough Road – mid 17th-century farmhouse.
  • Brownstones, 2 High Street – former Vicarage, mainly built in the mid-18th century, with a 1612 datestone that may not be original.
  • The Hall, 14 Station Road – an early 19th-century house with alterations made in 1946.

Facilities

It also has a post office and a Londis shop. There is one public house, The Crown, which was recently refurbished (The Sheaf Inn closed for business in 2013). The Pytchley Hotel is named after the local Pytchley hunt.

Internet

In 2003, a group of technology experts from the village and the village of Winwick grouped together to provide wireless internet for both villages, as British Telecom would not upgrade the local exchange to broadband internet. The system ran successfully until October 2004 when BT broadband was installed.

Sport

The village has many provisions for sport, with two large playing fields, used for men's football, at the north end of the village, a small children's play area, a tennis court, a pétanque area, a cricket pitch with pavilion and car park, and links to numerous countryside paths, such as the Jurassic Way. In the middle of the village there is a bowls lawn. West Haddon has many active sports clubs, such as the tennis club, 3 senior football teams, several youth football teams, a cricket team, a bowls club a petanque club and a table tennis club.

West Haddon Bowls Club is known as a friendly village club with members of all ages and experience and abilities. Set in the heart of the village we welcome new members at any time.

School

The village's primary school is West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School.[4] Details of a series of reports on the school can be found in the relevant section of the Ofsted website.[5] There were 201 pupils on the roll at the time of the inspection in January 2012.

Secondary school children in the village generally attend Guilsborough School in Guilsborough, Lawrence Sheriff School for Boys, Rugby High School for Girls or Rugby School.

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Neeson, J M (1993). Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 188–208. ISBN 0-521-56774-2.
  3. ↑ "Historic England – The List". Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  4. ↑ West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School
  5. ↑ "West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School". Ofsted. Retrieved 2015-09-30.

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