Monument record 717/3 - Village green

{1} The earliest depiction of the hamlet is a map of 1726 which shows an irregular green with 5 houses and 2 farmsteads arranged around it. On a map of 1823 associated with the enclosure of the parish the green is shown, although its south end had by then been encroached upon by the grounds of the two houses there. The Enclosure Map of two or three years later shows the changes effected by enclosure. The green had been reduced to a track leading north west to one farmstead.
The outlines of the original green can be identified from the existing hedges or by low banks and scarps. No trace remains of the land which ran north east from the green.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.1 site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1726, Map of Abthorpe, (unchecked) (Map). SNN13519.

<3> 1823, Enclosure map of Abthorpe, (unchecked) (Map). SNN42287.

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Jul 15 2013 11:13AM