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Long Buckby
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Long Buckby
Location within Northamptonshire
Population4,511 (2021 census)
OS grid reference SP628673
Civil parish
  • Long Buckby
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Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NORTHAMPTON
Postcode district NN6
Dialling code 01327
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52°18′11″N1°04′52″W / 52.303°N 1.081°W / 52.303; -1.081

Long Buckby is a large village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. In the 2021 census the parish of Long Buckby, which includes the hamlet of Long Buckby Wharf, was recorded as having a population of 4,511. [1]

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Long Buckby is hill top village, located around 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-east of the town of Daventry, and roughly midway between Northampton and Rugby, with each being around 9 miles (14 km) to the south-east and north-west respectively. The west of the parish has the A5 road, Grand Union Canal, West Coast Main Line railway and M1 motorway all passing through the Watford Gap, with Watford, Northamptonshire being the next village to the north.

Just south of the village is Long Buckby railway station on the Northampton Loop corollary of the West Coast Main Line.

History

The origin of the name of the village is uncertain. 'Bukki's farm/settlement' or 'Bucca's farm/settlement'. Alternatively, 'billy-goat farm/settlement'. [2]

Long Buckby has a history going back approximately 1,000 years to the Vikings [3] when all of northern, central and eastern England came under the Danelaw. The village was recorded in Domesday Book as Buchebei [4] and its prefix was first recorded in the Elizabethan era in reference to the length of the village. [5]

Near the centre of the village are the remaining earthworks of a medieval castle, which was probably built by the lords of the manor, the de Quincy family, in the 12th century. The castle was likely an earth and timber construction, built by 1150 AD and occupied until some time after 1200 AD. [6] The surviving earthworks, known locally as The Mounts, consist of an oval ring surrounded by a ditch. [5] [7]

The tower of the parish church of St Lawrence dates to the 12th century, with the rest of the building added later. [5]

Long Buckby was once a thriving industrial village: In the 17th century a woollen industry was established and Long Buckby became a centre of weaving and woolcombing. After 1800 this went into decline and was replaced by a thriving shoemaking industry. This was enhanced by the arrival of the Grand Union Canal in the early 19th century, upon which Long Buckby had a busy wharf. The shoemaking industry went into gradual decline in the 20th century and had died out by 2000. [3]

Since the 1960s the construction of the nearby M1 motorway has spurred expansion of the village from around 2,500 inhabitants to more 4,000 and has caused the nature of the village to change into a residential and commuter village. [3]

Nonconformity was a strong tradition in the village, with a chapel of the United Reform Church built here in 1707. The present building was built in 1771. [5]

The small hamlet of Long Buckby Wharf is separate from the main village but within the parish. It is located alongside the Grand Union Canal and was once a thriving community with its own post office, church and village hall. [5]

The village offers a wide range of amenities and services, including a doctor's surgery, two dentists, four churches, two schools, a public library, a veterinary surgery, a boarding cattery, a post office, a community centre, Long Buckby Mill Park Nature Reserve and Cotton End Park. There are three pubs in the village (The Pigeon, Old King's Head & a micro-pub Badger's Arms). A fourth pub, The Admiral Rodney, is closed and now a hair salon and rented flats. Local shops include two grocery stores, a butcher’s, several hairdressers, a card and gift shop, a chemist and a wide range of restaurants and take-aways.

The English comedian Stanley Unwin moved to Long Buckby in 1940 [8] when he got a job with the BBC at the nearby Borough Hill transmitting station. He lived there until his death in 2002.

Long Buckby railway station was opened in 1881 on the Northampton Loop Line. [9] Until the mid-1960s Long Buckby boasted its own goods-marshalling yard, which played a very significant role in the once thriving village economy, providing for the import of fuel and consumables for local business and residents as well as delivering the mail and packages to the village post office and newspapers to the village newsagents. Local agricultural produce and to a lesser extent livestock were exported from the facility.

Long Buckby railway station, as the nearest stop to Althorp, was the final stop on the rail journey by the Prince of Wales, his two sons and others following the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and as such it was seen on television across the world. [10]

Notable buildings and monument

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St Lawrence's Church
The remaining earthworks of Long Buckby Castle, known locally as The Mounts Long Buckby Castle (1) 10.21.jpg
The remaining earthworks of Long Buckby Castle, known locally as The Mounts

The Historic England website contains details of 37 listed buildings in the parish of Long Buckby. [11] All of them are Grade II apart from the following, which are Grade II*.

There is also one scheduled monument in the parish:

Transport

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Sign outside Long Buckby Wharf

The A5 road and M1 motorway run a short distance to the west of Long Buckby. The nearest motorway junctions on the M1 are numbers 16 and 18. In addition, the A428 trunk road runs a short distance to the east of Long Buckby.

Long Buckby railway station is served by West Midlands Trains. It lies on the Northampton Loop of the West Coast Main Line running between Birmingham New Street and London Euston.

Regular local bus services connect Long Buckby to the nearby towns of Northampton, Rugby and Daventry.

Schools

Long Buckby has two schools, Long Buckby Infants School for reception, Year 1 and Year 2, and Long Buckby Junior School which takes pupils from Year 3 to Year 6, leading up to the Key Stage 2 tests.

The village is within the catchment area of Guilsborough School, a secondary school which takes local pupils on to Key Stage 3 (Year 7 to Year 9), followed by Key Stage 4 for Years 10 and 11. Guilsborough School also offers a Sixth Form centre for students wishing to take AS and A2 courses.

Sport

Long Buckby A.F.C. plays at Station Road. They are members of the United Counties League First Division. The club's highest achievement was reaching the 2nd round of the FA Vase in 1985–86. The club's most successful players include Gary Mills, Darren Harman, Alex McKenzie, Dan Holman and Richard Ryan. The football club on the same site as the rugby union club has its own clubhouse and a second pitch which the reserves and Sunday League sides use.

Long Buckby Rugby Football Club was founded in 1875 fielding three senior sides, a colts team and other junior teams. All are given coaching by qualified rugby coaches. Club training nights include week nights. Youth rugby is on Sundays. The club has a licensed clubhouse. The club's colours are green. Its emblem is a castle with an archway with a cross above.

Tennis tournament

The Long Buckby Tennis Tournament is an event which started in 1907, and is played annually in mid-July on the sports ground. It is a doubles tournament with each team playing all the others in their section. [14]

Economy

Maclaren, the pushchair manufacturer founded by Owen Finlay Maclaren, was based in the village until 2000 when the company went into receivership and manufacturing went to China.

Notable residents

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