Monument record 4701 - Ashton

The village now has a rather amorphous plan, mainly due to the massive embankment of the London to Birmingham Railway which cuts through the village. However, early maps show a more understandable, if complex, plan made up of two distinctive parts.

{1} The village now has a rather amorphous plan, mainly due to the massive embankment of the London to Birmingham Railway which cuts through the village. However, early maps show a more understandable, if complex, plan made up of two distinctive parts. In the north-east, set around the moated manor and the church was an irregular arrangement of streets, now Roade Hill and Stoke Road. To the south and east was a separate part of the village, with a generally L-shaped plan. It was made up of lanes and streets laid out at right-angles to each other and bounded on the south-east by the present Hartwell Road. On the north-west side was a small green.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.7 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1729, Map of Ashton, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19042.

<3> 1768, Map of Ashton, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19017.

<4> 1819, MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN105051.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 1245-6 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

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Feb 10 2025 7:42PM