Old, Northamptonshire

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Population490 (2011)
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Postcode district NN6
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52°21′14″N0°50′56″W / 52.3540°N 0.8489°W / 52.3540; -0.8489

Old (previously Wold and before that Wolde) is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 308 people, [1] and the population increased to 490 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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Old is near the village of Walgrave, and has a church, village hall, pub and park. It was once home to the haulage company Knights of Old, but they were later based in Kettering. As with many villages, the number of farms has decreased; two shops, a blacksmith, a butcher and a second pub also disappeared.

History

The village's name means 'High forest'. [3]

Old is an ancient community, known in 1086 as Walda in the ancient domesday hundred of Mawsley. [4]

The village was the beneficiary of a large legacy left to it by the Rev. John Tounson, a previous rector of the parish several hundred years ago, and each year various needy residents of the village receive supplements. In 1971, it was reported that the small plot of land bequeathed by the Rev. Tounson had been sold for £238,000. [5]

Robert Woodford, the noted 17th-century diarist, was born in Old in 1606, a son of Robert Woodford and his wife Jane Dexter. He appears to have grown up in the parish. [6]

Notable buildings

The Historic England website contains details of a total of 19 listed buildings (all Grade II, apart from St Andrew's Church which is Grade I) and one scheduled monument at or in the vicinity of Old. [7] Amongst them are:

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References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics: Old CP: Parish headcounts Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 14 November 2009
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Key to English Place-names". Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  4. ↑ Open Domesday Online: Old, Northamptonshire Archived 2 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine ; accessed March 2019.
  5. ↑ "The Sunday Express", 9 May 1971.
  6. ↑ Fielding, John (2012). The Diary of Robert Woodford, 1637-1641. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. pp. 1–2. ISBN   978-1-1070-3638-3.
  7. ↑ "Historic England – The List". Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2015.



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