Monument record 4271 - Arthingworth

{2} The settlement earthworks are perhaps the result of movement rather than shrinkage as there are no indications in the records of a marked drop in population for the village. In 1801 207 people lived in the parish.

{3} Domesday gives a total recorded population of 20.

{4} By the early C18th there were 45 families in the village.

{6} No map shows the pre-enclosure road system of the township. However, in the 13th century a major road, the Bedford Way, seems to have run through the village and Arthingworth bridge. Its route can be seen as a well preserved hollow-way running between the furlongs north-westward. The plan-form of the village was altered between 1791 and 1817, by imparking around Arthingworth Hall. The curving form in the settlement appears largely to be a result of this re-planning.

<1> Survey Map of Arthingworth Showing Quarry and Field Boundaries, (unchecked) (Map). SNN59849.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.3-4 site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Thorn F.; Thorn C., 1979, Domesday Book: A Survey of The Counties of England, (unchecked) (Series). SNN1170.

<4> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.2 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77326.

<5> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.306+318+322 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<6> Foard, G.; Hall, D. & Partida, T., 2009, Rockingham Forest: An atlas of the medieval and early-modern landscape, p. 165-166 (Book). SNN106598.

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