infobox UK place country England official name Fawsley latitude 52.2128 longitude 1.1745 population shire district Daventry district Daventry shire county Northamptonshire region East Midlands constituency westminster Daventry UK Parliament constituency Daventry post town Daventry postcode district NN11 postcode area NN dial code 01327 os grid reference SP5657 london distance static image Image Fawsley Hall from afar.jpg 240px static image caption small VSt. Mary s church, viewed from Fawsley Hall small Fawsley is a hamlet place hamlet and civil parishes in England civil parish in the Daventry district Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire , England . The population at the 2001 census was 32. The Domesday Book 1086 confirms the population of Fawsley as around 50, but the Knightley Baronets Knightley family of Fawsley Hall developed the sheep farming at the expense of their peasant tenants, who were all evicted by the turn of the 15th century. The hall and the church are all that remain of Fawsley. Fawsley Hall and Landscape Park was created by the Knightley family. The Knightleys bought the manor of Fawsley in 1416 and Badby after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 and lived here for over 500 years. Image Fawsley Hall detail.jpg thumb left Interior courtyard of Fawsley Hall The Tudor style architecture Elizabethan hall, now a hotel and restaurant, was commissioned by Sir Edmund Knightley and was visited by Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I in 1575. More rooms, a new north wing and a fine red brick stable block were added in the early 18th century and the south west corner of the house was rebuilt in the 1870s. Standing isolated on a grassy knoll and surrounded by a Ha ha garden ha ha , St. Mary s Church contains the Knightley family tombs including ... thought to be from Sulgrave Manor. See also Knightley Baronets External links Commons category Fawsley ... Northamptonshire geo stub nl Fawsley pl Fawsley ... more details
Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix small The Right Honourable small br name The Lord St John of Fawsley honorific suffix br small Privy Council of the United Kingdom PC Royal Society of Literature FRSL small image Lord St John of Fawsley.jpg office Minister for the Arts Minister of State for the Arts primeminister Margaret Thatcher term start 5 May 1979 term end 5 January 1981 predecessor Jack Donaldson ... Church Roman Catholicism Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley , Privy Council of the United ... news obituaries 9124613 Lord St John of Fawsley.html Obituary Lord St John of Fawsley ... news obituaries lord stjohn of fawsley flamboyant politician who fell foul of margaret thatcher 7537625.html Lord St John of Fawsley Flamboyant politician who fell foul of Margaret Thatcher ..., http www.guardian.co.uk politics 2012 mar 05 lord st john of fawsley Lord St John of Fawsley obituary ... cite news first Andy last McSmith title Tributes paid to Lord St John of Fawsley, a political one off ... paid to lord st john of fawsley a political oneoff 7537780.html accessdate 6 March 2012 location London ... was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron St John of Fawsley ... John of Fawsley work The Sunday Times page 3 date 26 May 1996 ref The Commission strongly criticised ... McSmith title Tributes paid to Lord St John of Fawsley, a political one off date 06 March 2012 work The Independent url http www.independent.co.uk news uk politics tributes paid to lord st john of fawsley ... Obituary Lord St John of Fawsley , 5 March 2012. Dennis Kavanagh , http www.independent.co.uk news obituaries lord stjohn of fawsley flamboyant politician who fell foul of margaret thatcher 7537625.html Lord St John of Fawsley Flamboyant politician who fell foul of Margaret Thatcher , The Independent ... 2012 mar 05 lord st john of fawsley Lord St John of Fawsley obituary , The Guardian , 5 March ... Place of death missing cy Norman St John Stevas de Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley ... more details
family was Fawsley in Northamptonshire . There is a monument to Sir Richard Knightley d.1537 in the church ..., of Fawsley 1798 Sir John Knightley, 1st Baronet 1747 1812 Sir Charles Knightley, 2nd Baronet ... Baronets, of Fawsley 1798 Reverted Sir Valentine Knightley, 4th Baronet 1812 1898 Sir Charles ... more details
use dmy dates date March 2012 The Yorke Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for an essay of between 30,000 and 100,000 words on a legal subject, including the history, analysis, administration and reform of law. ref http www.law.cam.ac.uk admissions funding opportunities.php Cambridge University Faculty of Law Funding Opportunities ref ref http www.admin.cam.ac.uk reporter 2005 06 special 06 87.html Cambridge University Reporter 11 November 2005 ref The prize, awarded from the Yorke Fund, is open to any Graduation graduate of, or any person who is or has been registered as a graduate student of, the University. Endowment The Yorke Fund was Financial endowment endowed in 1873 by the Will law will of Edmund Yorke ref http www.law.cam.ac.uk benefactors tradition of benefaction.php Cambridge University Faculty of Law A Tradition of Benefaction ref b. 8 February 1787, d.29 November 1871 , alumnus of Rugby School , scholar and later Fellow of St Catharine s College, Cambridge and barrister of Lincoln s Inn , London. ref http venn.csi.cam.ac.uk cgi bin search.pl?sur YORKE&suro c&fir EDMUND&firo c&cit &cito c&c all&tex &sye &eye &col all&maxcount 50 Alumni of the University of Cambridge ref Yorke Prize Winners Winners of the Yorke Prize have included Courtney Stanhope Kenny , 1877, 1878, 1879 Perceval Maitland Laurence , 1878 Richard Cockburn Maclaurin , 1898 Norman Bentwich Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley Norman St John Stevas Baron St John of Fawsley , 1957 John Guy historian John Guy John H. Langbein John Baker legal historian Sir John Baker , 1975 Paul McHugh , 1988 Neil Jones academic Neil Jones References references University of Cambridge Category Legal awards Category Awards established in 1873 Category Awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge Category Scholarships in the United Kingdom ... more details
Disambiguation Baron St John may refer to several different peerage titles Peerage of England Baron St John of Lageham , created 1299 and dormant since 1355 Baron St John of Basing , created 1299 and abeyant since 1429 Marquess of Winchester Baron St John , created 1539 and merged since 1551 with the Marquess of Winchester Marquessate of Winchester Baron St John of Bletso , created 1559 Peerage of Great Britain Baron St John of Lydiard Tregoze Baron St John Lydiard Tregoze of Lydiard Tregoze , created 1712, as a subsidiary title of the Viscount Bolingbroke Viscountcy of Bolingbroke Baron St John of Battersea , created 1716 as a subsidiary title of the Viscount St John Viscountcy of St John Peerage of the United Kingdom Baron St John of Fawsley , created 1987 Sources Rayment date February 2012 Category Baronies St John ... more details
Other persons Richard Knightley Sir Richard Knightley 1533 1615 , of Fawsley in Northamptonshire , was an English Member of Parliament MP and leading patron of the Puritan s during the reign of Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I . Knightley, the senior member of one of the leading families of Northamptonshire , was knighted in 1565. He was MP for Northampton UK Parliament constituency Northampton in the Parliaments of 1584 and 1586, and for Northamptonshire UK Parliament constituency Northamptonshire in those of 1589 and 1598. He also served as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1568 1569 and 1581 1582. In 1587 he was commanded by Queen Elizabeth to be present at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots which took place in Northamptonshire . Sir Richard was a conspicuous member of the Puritan faction in Parliament, and in 1588 the secret printing press on which the Marprelate Tracts were printed was concealed at his house indeed, he may have met the expense of the printing. When this was discovered he was arrested, though subsequently released, and in February 1589 was fined 2,000 by Court of Star Chamber Star Chamber , and dismissed from the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire lieutenancy of the county and the Justice of the Peace magistracy . In 1605, he was again fined, this time the sum of 10,000. He was MP for Orford UK Parliament constituency Orford, Suffolk in 1601. He died in 1615. His son and heir, Valentine Knightley Valentine , and his grandson, Richard Knightley died 1639 Richard , were also members of Parliament. References http www.historyofparliamentonline.org volume 1558 1603 member knightley sir richard 1533 1615 History of Parliament KNIGHTLEY, Sir Richard 1533 1615 of Fawsley, Northants J. E. Neale , The Elizabethan House of Commons London Jonathan Cape, 1949 J. E. Neale, Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments 1584 1601 London Jonathan Cape, 1957 Concise Dictionary of National Biography 1930 Charles Henry Timperley , A Dictionary of Printers and Printing London ... more details
Other people Richard Knightley Sir Richard Knightley KB 1617 1661 , of Fawsley in Northamptonshire , was an English Member of Parliament MP . A member of Gray s Inn , Knightley was a member of a prominent Northamptonshire family who had married in about 1637 Elizabeth Hampden, daughter of John Hampden , the leading opponent of Charles I of England Charles I . His cousin, also called Richard Knightley died 1639 Richard , had been MP for Northamptonshire UK Parliament constituency Northamptonshire and one of Hampden s parliamentary allies before the King dismissed Parliament in 1629. Like the rest of his family, Knightley s religious inclinations were Puritan . When Parliament was at last summoned once more in 1640, Knightley was elected MP for Northampton UK Parliament constituency Northampton . He aligned himself with the opposition, and it was at Fawsley that John Pym and other leading anti Royalists met, presumably to discuss policy, after the dissolution of the Short Parliament . He represented Northampton again in the Long Parliament Long Parliaments, adhering to the Roundheads Parliamentary cause when civil war broke out, and sat until he was excluded in Pride s Purge . He subsequently represented Northamptonshire UK Parliament constituency Northamptonshire in the Third Protectorate Parliament Parliament of 1659 . In 1660 he was a member of the council which arranged the recall of Charles II of England Charles II , and was MP for St Germans UK Parliament constituency St Germans in the Convention Parliament. As a mark of gratitude, Charles made Knightley a Knight of the Bath in June 1661, but he died shortly afterwards. His contemporary Edmund Ludlow suggested that the popish and superstitious ceremonyes involved in admission to the Order contributed to his death, as he having some remaynder of conscience, scrupled for a while the bowing at the altar, and, being prevayled with to doe it, was so troubled for having done it that as it was supposed it was a meanes to shorten ... more details
There is no alternative shortened as TINA was a slogan which Margaret Thatcher , the conservative British Prime Minister used often. In economics, politics, and political economy , it has come to mean that there is no alternative to economic liberalism , that free market s, free trade , and capitalism capitalist globalization are the best way for modern societies to develop. The phrase may be traced to its emphatic use by nineteenth century classical liberal thinker Herbert Spencer . ref Social Statics 1851 , pp 42, 307. ref Cabinet minister Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley Norman St John Stevas , one of the leading Wets and dries wets nicknamed Thatcher Tina . In the early nineties, Francis Fukuyama wrote a book named The End of History and the Last Man , which in a similar strain argued that liberal democracy had triumphed over communism and the historical struggle between political systems was over though there could still be future events . According to TINA, economic liberalism is the only valid remaining ideology. See also Economic system Privatization Pens e unique Thatcherism Washington Consensus There Is No Alternative Why Margaret Thatcher Matters biography of Margaret Thatcher. Too big to fail References reflist External links http www.margaretthatcher.org speeches results.asp?ps 500&w 22There 20is 20no 20alternative 22 Margaret Thatcher s key speeches containing the phrase there is no alternative or similar Category Political slogans Category Capitalism Category Margaret Thatcher de TINA Prinzip fr There is no alternative it There Is No Alternative pl TINA slogan sv TINA ... more details
Infobox UK place official name Drayton shire district Daventry shire county Northamptonshire country England region East Midlands static image Image Drayton school and green 22nd Jan 2008 2 .JPG 250px static image caption small Drayton Green small population 6,415 population ref United Kingdom Census 2001 2001 Census Includes Daventry population density os grid reference SP5763 latitude 52.26 longitude 1.18 post town DAVENTRY postcode area NN postcode district NN11 dial code 01327 constituency westminster Daventry constituency Daventry london distance website Drayton is a Hamlet place hamlet in England , in the county of Northamptonshire , in the parish and union of Daventry , hundred of Fawsley , of a mile on the low lying western side of the town of Daventry ref OS Explorer Map, Rugby & Daventry 222, ISBN 978 0 319 23734 2 ref . History Not much is known about the origins of the Hamlet place hamlet but it is thought to be as old, or nearly as old, as Daventry. Citation needed date June 2009 It is thought to have peasant origins, although a Roman pavement was discovered near to the hamlet in 1736. It was enclosed in 1753. There is a manor house within the hamlet and also a school built in 1859 Citation needed date June 2009 which once catered for the education of 45 children it is now a private residence. Today the hamlet is all but a suburb of the town of Daventry although there are still many fine examples of Drayton s older dwellings around the village green , and in School Street. Gallery gallery Image Drayton school and green 22nd Jan 2008 1 .JPG The Old School House gallery References Reflist External links Commons category inline Drayton, Northamptonshire Category Villages in Northamptonshire Category Hamlets in England pl Drayton Northamptonshire ... more details
This is a list of Masters of Emmanuel College, Cambridge . 1584 1622 Lawrence Chaderton 1622 1628 John Preston clergyman John Preston 1628 1637 William Sandcroft 1637 1644 Richard Holdsworth 1644 1645 Thomas Hill Cambridge Thomas Hill 1645 1653 Anthony Tuckney 1653 1662 William Dillingham Cambridge William Dillingham 1662 1665 William Sancroft 1665 1676 John Breton Cambridge John Breton 1676 1680 Thomas Holbech 1680 1719 John Balderston Cambridge John Balderston 1719 1736 William Savage Emmanuel William Savage 1736 1775 William Richardson Emmanuel William Richardson 1775 1797 Richard Farmer 1797 1835 Robert Towerson Cory 1835 1871 George John Archdall 1871 1895 Samuel George Phear 1895 1911 William Chawner 1911 1935 Peter Giles philologist Peter Giles 1935 1951 Thomas Shirley Hele 1951 1964 Edward Welbourne 1964 1977 Gordon Sutherland 1977 1990 Derek Brewer 1990 1990 Charles Peter Wroth 1991 1996 Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley 1996 2002 John Ffowcs Williams 2002 Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton Baron Wilson of Dinton will retire on 30 September 2012 and will be replaced by Fiona Reynolds Dame Fiona Reynolds in autumn 2013 ref cite web title Emmanuel College chooses next Master url http news.admin.cam.ac.uk news 2012 03 06 emmanuel college chooses next master accessdate 8 March 2012 ref ref cite news last McCarthy first Michael title National Trust director to step down after 11 years url http www.independent.co.uk environment nature national trust director to step down after 11 years 7542328.html accessdate 8 March 2012 newspaper The Independent date 7 March 2012 ref . References Reflist http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 66657 http www.emma.cam.ac.uk about masters Category Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category Lists of Masters of Cambridge University Colleges Emmanuel ... more details
George Baker 1781 1851 , topographer and historian, was a native of Northampton, England . While a schoolboy, at the age of 13, he wrote a manuscript history of Northampton, and from that time he was always engaged in enlarging his collections. His first printed work was A Catalogue of Books, Poems, Tracts, and small detached pieces, printed at the press at Strawberry Hill, belonging to the late Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, London twenty copies only, privately printed , 1810, 4to. His proposals for The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton were issued in 1815. The first part was published in folio in 1822, the second in 1826, and the third, completing the first volume, in 1830. This volume contains the subdivisions of Spelho , Newbottle Grove , Fawsley , Wardon , and Sutton . The fourth part, containing the subdivisions of Norton, Northamptonshire Norton and Cleley , appeared in 1836, and about one third of a fifth part, containing the subdivision of Towcester , in 1841. At the latter date, 220 of his original subscribers had failed him, and with health and means exhausted he was compelled to bring the publication to a close. His library and manuscript collections were dispersed by auction in 1842, the latter passing into the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps . Baker s Northamptonshire is, on the whole, as far as it goes, the most complete and systematic of all our county histories. In the elaboration and accuracy of its pedigrees it is unsurpassed. An index to the places mentioned in the work was published at London in 1868. Baker, who was a unitarianism unitarian , took a deep interest in various local institutions, and was a magistrate for the borough of Northampton. He was not married. A sister, Miss Anne Elizabeth Baker , was his constant companion for more than sixty years. He died at his residence, Mare Fair, Northampton, on 12 Octoctobe 1851. References cite DNB wstitle Baker, George 1781 1851 first Thompson last Cooper authorlink Thompson ... more details
Edward Unton ca. 1556 1589 was an English landowner and MP. He was the eldest son of Edward Unton high sheriff Sir Edward Unton of Wadley, Berkshire and Anne, the daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and widow of John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick . His younger brother was Henry Unton . He married firstly Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley, Northamptonshire and secondly Catherine, the daughter of Sir George Hastings. He had no children. In 1582 he inherited his father s estate. In 1583 he travelled in Italy and and was arrested by the Inquisition. His brother Henry paid a ransom of 10,000 crowns to secure his return to England, where Edward was obliged to sell part of his inheritance to repay his brother. In 1584 he was elected knight of the shire for Berkshire UK Parliament constituency Berkshire and again in 1586. In 1587 he went as a colonist to Munster but was recalled due to the imminent threat of the Spanish Armada. Afterwards he went as a captain on the Portuguese expedition the English Armada led by Sir John Norreys , but returned in bad health to die in 1589. He was succeeded by his brother Henry. His widow married Sir Walter Chetwynd of Staffordshire. References reflist http www.historyofparliamentonline.org volume 1558 1603 member unton edward 1556 89 History of Parliament UNTON, Edward c.1586 89 of Wadham, Berks and Langley, Oxon Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Unton, Edward ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1589 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Unton, Edward Category 1550s births Category 1589 deaths Category Members of the Parliament of England pre 1707 ... more details
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coord 51 30 7 N 0 10 0 W region GB type landmark display title Image Basil Spence Hyde Park Barracks from park.jpg thumb left Basil Spence s tower The Hyde Park Barracks are located in Knightsbridge in central London , U.K. on the southern edge of Hyde Park, London Hyde Park . Historically they were often known as Knightsbridge Barracks and this name is still sometimes used informally. Hyde Park Barracks is three quarters of a mile from Buckingham Palace , close enough for the officers and men of the Household Cavalry to be available to respond speedily to any emergency at the Palace. The first buildings on the site were constructed for the Horse Guards in 1795, and a riding school and stables designed by Philip Hardwick were added in 1857. These buildings were replaced with new ones by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1880s, which in turn were demolished to make way for modern buildings designed by Sir Basil Spence , and completed in 1970. It was built to accommodate 23 officers, 60 warrant officers and non commissioned officers, 431 rank and file, and 273 horses. The most prominent feature is a 33 storey, convert 94 m ft 0 tall residential tower, which is one of the two most prominent modern buildings as seen from Hyde Park along with The London Hilton on Park Lane . It has been described as dramatically modern and uncompromising , ref name eyesore cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi programmes breakfast 3265421.stm title Britain s top 10 eyesores publisher BBC News date 13 November 2003 accessdate 2008 01 04 ref but many people have viewed it less favourably it was voted number eight in a Country Life magazine Country Life poll of Britain s top ten eyesores . ref name eyesore Lord St John of Fawsley remarked that Basil Spence s barracks in Hyde Park ruined that park in fact, he has the distinction of having ruined two parks, because of his 50 Queen Anne s Gate Home Office building , which towers above St. James s Park . citation needed date January 2008 Image Knightsb ... more details
Image HomeOffice QueenAnnesGate.jpg thumb 200px right 102 Petty France 102 Petty France is an office block on Petty France, Westminster Petty France in City of Westminster Westminster , London , overlooking St. James s Park , which was designed by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, with Sir Basil Spence and completed in 1976. It was well known as the main location for the UK Home Office department between 1978 and 2004 when it was known as 50 Queen Anne s Gate and now houses the Ministry of Justice United Kingdom Ministry of Justice . The building is 56 m 184 ft high, with 14 floors providing 51,000 m 550,000 sq ft of office space. The site was previously occupied by the enormous 14 storey mansion block Queen Anne s Mansions which were despised by some architectural commentators, and its demolition was regarded as highly desirable by advocates of modern architecture at a time when Victorian architecture was at the nadir of its reputation. However, the new building was not favourably received architecturally either, due to its scale and massing with protruding elements at the upper and lower floors, often being described as a Brutalist architecture Brutalist design it was sometimes known to those who worked there as the Lubyanka KGB Lubyanka . ref cite media url https www.bbc.co.uk programmes b00qtpj1 title The Great Offices of State The Dark Department people Michael Cockerell reporter publisher BBC Four date 14 February 2010 accessdate 2010 02 14 time 25 10 quote Jack Straw it was awful in those days, we used to call it Lubyanka ref Fodor s guide to London described it as hulking , and Lord St John of Fawsley remarked that Basil Spence s Hyde Park Barracks, London barracks in Hyde Park, London Hyde Park ruined that park in fact, he has the distinction of having ruined two parks, because of his Home Office building, which towers above St James s Park. ref http www.publications.parliament.uk pa ld200506 ldhansrd vo050628 text 50628 24.htm ref The building was ori ... more details
John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge 9 October 1907 &ndash 8 March 1998 was a United Kingdom British politician and public servant. He married Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge Frances Lonsdale in 1935. He was a soldier, farmer, prison reformer, consumers champion and, under James Callaghan Jim Callaghan , Minister for the Arts from 1976 to 1979. Before his appointment as Arts Minister, Lord Donaldson had served for several years as a UK Minister of State Minister of State at Britain s Northern Ireland Office N.I.O. at Stormont Estate Stormont . ref cite web url http books.google.ca books?id PKIWAQAAIAAJ&q 22Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge 22 AND 221907 22&dq 22Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge 22 AND 221907 22&hl en&sa X&ei iQJYT6OMEaiPigKL 7XMCw&ved 0CEMQ6AEwBA title Kelly s handbook to the titled, landed and official classes Kelly s Google Books publisher Books.google.ca date accessdate 2012 03 08 ref He was created a life peer as Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge , of Kingsbridge in the County of Buckinghamshire on 20 November 1967. Portraits of Jack Donaldson The United Kingdom s National Portrait Gallery London National Portrait Gallery holds the following portrait featuring Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge as a sitter Exhibit number P528 John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge and Frances Annesley n e Lonsdale , Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda . Painted in 1992 medium colour print measurements 14 7 8 in. x 12 in. 379 mm x 305 mm . See http www.npg.org.uk live search portrait.asp?search ap&npgno P528 for more information. References references s start s off succession box before Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney Hugh Jenkins title Minister for the Arts years 1976&ndash 1979 after Norman St John Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley Norman St John Stevas s end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Donaldson of Kingsbridge, Jack Donaldson, Baron ALTER ... more details
Geobox Lost Settlement name Church Charwelton category Lost Settlement image Church Charwelton.jpg image caption The isolated church flag symbol country England state Northamptonshire region East Midlands district Daventry municipality Charwelton location .7 miles south east of the village of Charwelton lat d 52 lat m 11 lat s 43 lat NS N long d 1 long m 12 long s 16 long EW W elevation prominence established date owner public visitation visitation date Free fields free free type Maps map Northamptonshire outline map with UK.png map caption Church Charwelton within Northamptonshire map background map locator map locator x 14 map locator y 78 Website website Footnotes footnotes Map Ref SP544554 further2 List of lost settlements in Northamptonshire The lost village of Church Charwelton lies south east of the village of Charwelton in the England English county of Northamptonshire . ref OS Newport Pagnell & Northampton South 207, ISBN 978 0319 23764 9 ref Its site is on the north east bank of the River Cherwell . ref An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in North West Northamptonshire , 1981 HMSO, page 22. ISBN 0 11 700900 8 ref The Jurassic Way long distance footpath passes across the site. History It has been supposed that Church Charwelton was deserted in the 15th century at the time of the Wars of the Roses ref History of Northamptonshire 1791 , by Bridges, page 36 ref but in fact it is far more likely that the settlement s depopulation was due to enclosure and the introduction of sheep . ref An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in North West Northamptonshire , page 45. ref The land was purchased by Thomas Andrews in 1417 and by the year 1547 records show that Thomas Andrew s grandson, also Thomas, kept 1,200 sheep on the site of the settlement. Another part was owned by the Knightley Baronets Knightley family of Fawsley who also kept 300 sheep on the land. It is recorded that the whole site had been abandoned by 1847. ref Tithe map of the area, Northampton Records O ... more details
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