Conservation Area: Weekley conservation area (DNN12383)

Weekley is one of a small group of former estate villages, with Warkton and Grafton Underwood, associated with the Duke of Buccleugh’s Estate at Boughton. Parts of the village are no longer in Estate ownership, but there are areas where the presence of the estate is strongly felt. The village has early medieval origins and possesses a good collection of historic buildings largely dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are substantial traces of the earlier history of the village in the form of settlement remains within the conservation area. Weekley falls into that category of villages that have a nucleated (c.f. Warkton) as opposed to a linear plan (c.f. Grafton Underwood). There are three distinct cores: the Green in front of St Mary’s Church, Hall Yard and the Green in front of the Manor House. Boughton House is situated about a mile and a half north east of Weekley, and Boughton Park occupies the northern and eastern parts of the parish. Weekley is rich in archaeology from the iron age to the eighteenth century. The partially surviving avenues and rides created by the second Duke of Montagu have left significant and impressive landscape traces. The village possesses a good selection of buildings including a substantial collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century cottages. In addition to the mediaeval Parish Church there are two buildings which are of primary architectural importance: the Montagu Hospital (1611); and Parson Latham’s School (1624). Weekley is a parish of 640 hectares situated approximately 1 mile north east of Kettering, located at between 65m and 100m above OD. The village sits astride the main A43 Kettering to Stamford trunk road. There are good road communications to the Midlands and East Anglia via the nearby A14, and Weekley is 15 minutes by car from Kettering station on the Midland railway main line. Weekley is served by daily bus services to Kettering, Geddington, Stanion, Brigstock and Corby. The parish is bisected by the River Ise flowing from north to south along an undulating course in a broad open valley. For part of its course, the river has been diverted to form the three canals running through Boughton Park. There is a population of 242 living in 85 households in the parish (2001 Census).

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