Thorpe Mandeville
Coordinates: 52°06′00″N 1°13′26″W / 52.100°N 1.224°W
| Thorpe Mandeville | |
 Thorpe Mandeville
Thorpe Mandeville shown within Northamptonshire |
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| Population | 194 (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SP5344 |
| Civil parish | Thorpe Mandeville |
| 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 | Thorpe Mandeville |
| List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire | |
Thorpe Mandeville is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire. The hamlet of Lower Thorpe lies just north of the village.
The population of the parish has grown slowly over the centuries: the 1801 census recorded it as 137, the 1991 census recorded it as 178[2] and the 2001 census recorded it as 194.[1]
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[edit] Manors
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Thorp. "Mandeville" is a corruption of Amundeville. Richard de Amundeville was lord of the manor during the thirteenth century.[3]
In 1346 a house and 9 acres (3.6 ha) of land at Thorpe Mandeville were listed amongst the estates of the Augustinian priory at Chacombe.[4]
The Kirton family lived at Thorpe Mandeville manor house from 1554 to 1685.[citation needed] The current ironstone manor house dates from about the 1770s, replacing an old house that stood west of the church.[citation needed] The south front of the house is of five bays and is in the style of Thomas Archer.[5]
[edit] Parish church
By the end of the 11th century Thorpe Mandeville had a parish church, which was included in the early endowments to a Cluniac priory of the Abbey of La Charité-sur-Loire that had been founded at Preston Capes in 1090 and moved to Daventry shortly thereafter.[6]
The present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, built of local ironstone, dates largely from the early part of the 14th century.[5] The north aisle has Decorated Gothic windows and an arcade of three bays.[5] The chancel has windows dating from about 1300, the middle of the Decorated Gothic period.[5] The architect Albert Hartshorne restored the chancel in 1872.[5] The tower has a saddleback roof and three bells. The parish is now part of the benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.[7]
The church has a monument to Thomas Kirton (1537-1601), who was Common Serjeant of London, and his wife (died 1597).[5]
[edit] Social and economic history
Thorpe Mandeville had a Church of England school that was built in 1864 and enlarged in 1898.[8] It was closed in 1967 and the building has been the village hall since 1970.[8]
The Hill, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Thorpe Mandeville village, is a house designed by C.F.A. Voysey and built in 1897-98.[5]
In 1900 the Great Central Railway (GCR) completed a line linking its new main line at Culworth Junction with the Great Western Railway at Banbury Junction. The link line passed through the northern part of Thorpe Mandeville parish. In 1911 the GCR opened Chalcombe Road Halt 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Thorpe Mandeville and in 1913 it added Eydon Road Halt at Culworth 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Thorpe Mandeville. British Railways closed both halts in 1956 and closed the line between Culworth Junction and Banbury Junction in 1966.
[edit] Amenities
The village has a public house, the Three Conies, that belongs to the Hook Norton Brewery.[9] Thorpe Mandeville is on an important former drovers' road called Banbury Lane. The Three Conies was built in the 17th century as a drovers' inn, providing overnight accommodation for the drovers and their stock.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Area selected: South Northamptonshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790474. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ Thorpe Mandeville village website
- ^ Thorpe Mandeville
- ^ Serjeantson & Adkins, 1906, pages 133-135
- ^ a b c d e f g Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 429
- ^ Serjeantson & Adkins, 1906, pages 109-114
- ^ A Church Near You: Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney
- ^ a b Thorpe Mandeville: State school (sic.)
- ^ The Three Conies
- ^ "Three Conies Inn". Thorpe Mandeville: Thorpe-Mandeville yesterday. http://www.thorpe-mandeville.co.uk/three_conies.html. Retrieved September 11, 2011. concerning a Three Conies inn dating back to 1738.
[edit] Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1973). The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 429. ISBN 0 14 071022 1.
- Serjeantson, R.M. & Adkins, W.R.D. (1906). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Northampton, Volume 2. pp. 109–114, 133–135.
