Hardingstone

Hardingstone

Coordinates: 52°12′37″N 0°52′46″W / 52.2104°N 0.8795°W / 52.2104; -0.8795

Hardingstone
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Queen Eleanor's Cross, London Road, Hardingstone, Northampton
Hardingstone is located in Northamptonshire
Hardingstone

 Hardingstone shown within Northamptonshire
Population 2,015 [1]
OS grid reference SP765575
District Northampton
Shire county Northamptonshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Northampton
Postcode district NN4
Dialling code 01604
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Northampton South
List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire

Hardingstone is a village in Northamptonshire, England. It is on the southern edge of Northampton, and now forms a suburb of the town within the Northampton Borough Council area. It is about 3 miles (5 km) from the town centre. The Newport Pagnell road (the B526, formerly part of the A50) separates the village from the nearby village of Wootton, which has also been absorbed into the urban area.

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Governance

As a former village distinct from the town it has its own parish council,[2] unlike more recent 20th and 21st century suburbs of the town. The parish includes part of the Brackmills Industrial Estate, and borders Delapre Abbey.

Demographics

The 2001 census[1] showed there were 2,015 people living in the parish: 978 males and 1,037 females in 885 households.

Brackmills

To the north-east of the village is the large Brackmills Industrial Estate. The estate was chosen as the site of a 400 ft wind turbine erected by the Asda supermarket chain at one of their warehouses, but this was rejected by the planners.

Facilities

The original village school was built around 1860-70 by General Bouverie; this building remained open until the 1960s or 70s when the primary school was transferred to a more modern building in Martin's Lane, and the old school was transferred to Northampton County Council (Social Services) who now let it to the Hardingstone Village Hall Association.

The village has two pubs - "The Crown" and "The Sun" along with a post office, supermarket and several hairdressers.

Queen Eleanor's Cross

On the edge of the village, on the road going into Northampton, can be found one of only three remaining Eleanor crosses. The cross commemorates the resting at nearby Delapré Abbey of the body of Queen Eleanor of Castile; King Edward I stayed at nearby Northampton Castle. The cross was begun in 1291 by John of Battle; he worked with William of Ireland to carve the statues; William was paid five marks (£3 6s. 8d. or £3.33) per figure.

Plaque recording the history of the Northampton Cross

The cross is octagonal and set on some steps, the present ones being replacements. The cross is built in three tiers and originally had a crowning terminal - possibly a cross. It is not known when this was lost, but it had been lost by the time of the second Battle of Northampton in 1460.

The cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's Tour through the whole island of Great Britain, where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675:

... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

Its bottom tier features open books. These probably included painted inscriptions of Eleanor's biography and of prayers for her soul to be said by viewers, which are now lost.

Church

The Church in winter

The parish church of St Edmund dates back to the 12th century and is mentioned in documents from 1107. Pevsner considered that the body of the church had been over-restored.

Many members of the Bouverie family (owners of nearby Delapré Abbey) are buried in the vault - the family used this as their family church because the Abbey, after the dissolution of the monasteries, lacked its own church.

During the war the stained glass windows were removed for safety but afterwards could not be found; some people believe that they might be in the Bouverie family vault - unfortunately this is bricked up and so no-one has tested the theory.

Alfred Rouse

Hardingstone Lane was the scene of the Blazing car murder of 1931 which attracted sensational national interest. The felon, Alfred Rouse, was tried at Northampton Assizes and subsequently hanged in Bedford Gaol on 10 March 1931. The male victim has never been identified and was buried at Hardingstone church.[3]

Notable residents

  • Robert Adams (sculptor and designer)

References

  1. ^ a b "UK census 2001 - data". http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=797319&c=Hardingstone&d=16&e=15&g=473401&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1223056005500&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 2008-10-03. 
  2. ^ "Hardingstone Parish Council website". http://www.visionwebsites.co.uk/Contents/Text/Index.asp?SiteId=100&SiteExtra=9970874&TopNavId=177&NavSideId=785. Retrieved 2008-10-09. 
  3. ^ "Northants Police Archive". http://www.northants.police.uk/museum_new/exhibits/12/verdict.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-08. 

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