Monument record 2390 - Nutcote (Now Part of Naseby Village)

Formerly a separate settlement, but not documented until 1630. The hamlet appears to have been centred around a green in the south-west corner of the village. The boundary between Nutcote and Naseby appears to have been the south-west flowing stream.

{1} NCCAP: SP6877/023-27.

{3} Possibly not taken forward to Stage 2 survey and assessment.

{4} The modern village is, in fact, composed of two former settlements, Naseby and Nutcote, with the boundary between the two thought to have been formed by a small stream following the line of a hollow way still partially visible to the north of Fairfax Drive.

{5} Earthworks associated with Nutcote. To the S. of Sow Green, and thus within Nutcote, a broad curving hollow-way extends S.W. ('c' on plan), fading out before it reaches the S. edge of the adjacent field. On its W. side is a series of rectangular raised platforms 0.5 m. high beyond which are some large ditched closes with ridge-and-furrow within them. To the E. of the hollow-way are further, more indeterminate platforms and closes, and to the N. immediately S. of Sow Green and projecting from the gardens of the modern houses, two more small closes. On the 1630 map the N. part of the hollow-way is depicted as a narrow curved field and one of the raised platforms to the W. ('d' on plan) is shown as the site of a house and garden belonging to one Roger Blason. The platforms to the S. were already devoid of building in 1630 and lay in a large field belonging to Edward Goosey; the boundaries of this field are recoverable on the ground. A building, perhaps a barn, stood to the E. of the hollow-way, in this field. Its exact site cannot be identified, but other ditches and scarps seem to mark the boundary between Goosey's Field and another field belonging to Thomas Adderson, as well as the S. side of one belonging to Richard Webb. The closes on the S. side of the green were also abandoned by 1630 and lay in a field belonging to John Worth. The Enclosure Map indicates that by 1822 most of the earlier boundaries here, as well as Blason's house, had gone.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<2> Bird H., 2005, Seaborne Re-Visited: Cob Cottages in Northamptonshire 2004, p.54-69 (unchecked) (Article). SNN109351.

<4> Chinnock, C., 2014, Trial Trench Evaluation on Land off Church Street, Naseby, Northamptonshire March 2014, p.4 (checked) (Report). SNN109736.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 143-6/Site 3 (Series). SNN77381.

<6> 1630, Map of Naseby (Map). SNN11627.

<7> 1822, Naseby Enclosure Map (Map). SNN114220.

Record last edited

Aug 7 2024 2:57PM