Monument record 2838 - Apethorpe

Formerly a chapelry of Yarwell, the village may have originated as its daughter settlement.

{1} Houses of now shrunken medieval and post medieval village existed in 1778.

{2} Houses were removed in the C19th when Apethorpe park was enlarged.

{4} Apethorpe was a member of the royal manor of Nassington in 1086, reflected in tis 'thorpe' place-name, and the ecclesiastical dependancy remained until the 19th century. A deer park was first recorded in 1543, when it was walled and paled. Known as Little Park in 1609. A new park was created before 1575 and 1609 was known as Great Park, which probably included Morehay Lawn.
Substantial depopulation and possibly enclosure occurred in Apethorpe in the late 15th or early 16th century.
The village may have originated as a single tenement row, with the manor hosue at the southern end, with its tenements backing onto the valley road. The row fronted east on to a green which may have originally have extended east-ward to the floodplain meadow. The main street seems to have been extended north with tenements on either side probably laid out over a furlong. The rectilinear row west of the valley road may be a similar addition, though ridge and furrow indicates this row never extended as far as the Hall. A curvilinear group of tenements and the church are possibly an encroachment over a larger green, suggesting the church was a secondary element in the village and not associated with the original manor. The church was rebuilt in the 15th century so it cannot be determined when it was first established.

{8} Collection of photographs of buildings in the village.

<1> 1778, Apethorpe Inclosure Award, (unchecked) (Map). SNN4652.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.10 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<3> MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN59895.

<4> Foard, G.; Hall, D. & Partida, T., 2009, Rockingham Forest: An atlas of the medieval and early-modern landscape (Book). SNN106598.

<5> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p. 423 (Book). SNN77326.

<6> Serjeantson, R M & Adkins, R W D, 1906, A History of the County of Northampton, p. 543 (Book). SNN111061.

<7> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton (Series). SNN77384.

<8> Various, Various, Photographs of buildings in Apethorpe (Photographs). SNN111149.

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Mar 27 2023 1:48PM