Monument record 830 - Bugbrooke

{1} Bugbrooke is mentioned by Moreton as one of the places producing pottery in the county.

{2} Documentary research has shown that at least 12 pipe makers worked in Bugbrooke between about 1660 and 1736. The identification of this specialised pipemaking industry in a rural rather than an urban location (Daventry) raises questions about the nature and organisation of 17th century society.

{3} No medieval earthworks have been recorded in the village of Bugbrooke but the village plan is unusual with a single street on the east of the stream and an almost isolated church on the west. The area around the church, still mainly permanent pasture, might well repay excavation in the future to establish the origins of the village.

{?} Bugbrooke village appears to have comprised two main units. There was a north/south street on the east side of the stream, with several side streets running westward containing a limited numberof tenements. There seem to have been a series of rectilinerar tenement blocks on both sides of the north/south road, possibly with small greens at road junctions at the north end (enclosed by the time of Inclosure) and another at the junction with the main east/west road. At the very north end of the north/south road on its west side lies the apparent site of a medieval manor. A second plan unit appears to lie to the west of the stream andcomprise a single road lined by tenements only on its east side, with the church at the north end of these tenements. Another possible infilled green lies central to the row, an irregular grouping of tenements encompassed on both sides by an east/west road. Again at the north end, to the north of the church tenements line the east west (main) road.

<1> Morton J., 1712, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, p.68-73 (unchecked) (Book). SNN10113.

<2> PONSFORD M., 2000, Post-medieval Britain and Ireland in 1998 and 1999, 34/293 (checked) (Notes). SNN107513.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.25 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> 1779, Bugbrooke Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN108797.

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