Place record 1842/0/57 - Titchmarsh Lane

{2} There was apparently development in at least one of the lanes leading off the main street, for in 1395-7 there was a messuage, with 8 acres of field land, in Titchmarsh Lane. The tenements on the west side of the lane, as seen in 1782 were very short and appear to represent infilling either of a wider street or from the subdivision of property extending back from the main road. On the east side of the lane other closes may also represent the site of medieval tenements abandoned by 1782, but the presence of ridge and furrow in the closes to the east may indicate that, like them, these narrow closes are simply an area of enclosed field land and were never built up. Encroachment onto the lane does however seem to have happened at a later date with several buildings and small properties extending out onto the road.

<1> 1781 (circa), Thrapston Inclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN100461.

<2> Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Thrapston (Medieval + Post Medieval), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100460.

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