Thorpe Waterville

Thorpe Waterville
Village sign
Thorpe Waterville Location within Northamptonshire
OS grid reference	TL0281
Unitary authority	North Northamptonshire
Ceremonial county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Kettering
Postcode district	NN14
Dialling code	01832
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Corby
List of places UK England Northamptonshire 52°25′25″N0°29′47″W / 52.4236°N 0.4964°W / 52.4236; -0.4964

Thorpe Waterville is a village in the English county of Northamptonshire. It was first attested in 1199 as Torp(e), and Thorp Watervile in 1300. Ascelin de Waterville was a landowner in the area in the 12th century. ^{[1] [2]}

Geography and administration

Thorpe Waterville lies on the A605 road, ^[3] three miles north-east of the town of Thrapston. Together with Achurch, it forms the ecclesiastical parish of Thorpe Achurch, which in turn is added to another combined parish, Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, to form the grouped parish council of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch. The village is part of the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire.^{[ citation needed ]} It is located close to the River Nene. ^[4]

Historical buildings

Thorpe Waterville Castle, of which only a building used as a barn remains, was mainly the work of Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Treasurer to King Edward I.

Chapel Cottage bears a date stone marked with the year 1618, which is carved into the right hand side of the ingle nook fireplace. Reference to this the date stone is made in R. Gough's 1806 Translation of Camden's Britannia with Additions, Northamptonshire p. 283:

Robert Brown, founder of the sect of the Browniſts, [...] resided in a little thatched house in Thorpe Waterville which is still subsisting, with a date on the chimney 1618

During its renovation in the late 1970s, following a thatch roof fire, builders discovered what was rumoured to be one end of a tunnel stretching from the Manor House^{[ specify ]} to Chapel Cottage. The owners of the cottage were reluctant to excavate the tunnel entrance fully so the validity of this cannot be confirmed.

References

1. "Thorpe Waterville". Survey of English Place-Names. The University of Nottingham . Retrieved 7 May 2025.
2. Page, William, ed. (1930). Parishes: Thorpe Achurch. A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3. London: Victoria County History. pp. 135–139. Retrieved 7 May 2025– via British History Online.
3. "Driver arrested after fatal four-vehicle crash near Thrapston". www.bbc.com. 16 July 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
4. "Areas near the River Nene from Thorpe Waterville to Eaglethorpe flood warning area - GOV.UK". check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk. 12 May 2025.

External links

• General details
• Map sources for Thorpe Waterville