Monument record 1478 - Hartwell

{3} The modern village of Hartwell, formerly known as Hartwell Green, is a large nucleated settlement lying against the north boundary of the parish. However there is much evidence to suggest that this situation is relatively recent. Before extensive building in the 19th and 20th centuries this village was little more than a single street, on the south side of a large rectangular green. There was already some encroachment on the green by the mid 18th century. The village at that time had the appearance of a secondary forest-edge settlement. A parish church was erected in this village on a new site in 1851. Before that there was only a chapel, located in the south of the parish in the now deserted settlement at Chapel Farm which was known as Hartwell up to 1835. The modern parish was formerly a chapelry of Roade, though in Domesday Book a priest is listed under Hartwell. It seems likely that the medieval settlement pattern consisted of a group of hamlets, Bozenham, Hartwell (Chapel Farm), Hartwell Green and at least three others at Park Farm, Elms Farm and south east of Hartwell, as well as at Stonepit Farm which lay within an area of old enclosures in 1768. The lost settlement of Wyk Juxta Hertwell may have been any one of these places.

{6} Photograph of 5 Park Road, also photograph of unidentified terrace (possibly 17-23 Forest Road).

<1> Hall, D, 1974, PARISH SURVEY MAP: HARTWELL, (unchecked) (Map). SNN54816.

<2> HALL D.N., 1975, Hartwell, Northamptonshire: A Parish Survey, 5/7-9 (checked) (Article). SNN28079.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.75 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> 1768, Map of Hartwell (NRO Map G440), (unchecked) (Map). SNN26408.

<5> Gover J.E.B.; Mawer A.; Stenton F.M. (Eds.), 1933, The Place-names of Northamptonshire, p.100 (unchecked) (Series). SNN5881.

<6> Miss June Swann, 1960s- 70s, Miss June Swann Photographic Archive, Taken 1965 (Photographs). SNN116665.

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Apr 10 2025 3:31PM