Monument record 2416/60 - North Street Tenements

{1}The burgages on North Street are a single continuous row of burgages without any interspersed tenements. This might imply this was a single phase expansion of the town in the 12th or 13th century. This would accord well with the evidence that the North Bridge was a new creation of the medieval period and implies that North Street will have been created at that time

There were certainly tenants of the rector by the 1230s for John de Burgo, rector of Oundle in 1234, granted William de Milton a house which Harwisia filia John Capellani held in Oundle with half an acre of field land. Apart from the single tenement in West Street, the Rectory property lay wholly within North Street. The majority of these tenements in 1565 lay on the east of the Rectory, between it and the High Street and seem on topographical grounds to have been carved out of the original Rectory property following or as part of the laying out of North Street to the new North Bridge, which occurred some time before 1214-22. These tenements seem to have been laid out in at least three separate groups, the southernmost are short and irregular plots and probably represent the latest stage of infilling on the frontage, probably late because so close to the probable site of the capital messuage. The remaining tenements lay on the east side of North Street, at its northern end. These appear to represent tenements laid out over the western part of open field strips that survived as closes to the east of Jericho Lane in 1565, just as the burgages in North Street seem to have been created.

<1> Foard G.; Ballinger J.;, 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle, Section 3.1.1.2, 3.4.2 Burgages (Report). SNN102637.

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