Deanshanger Past and Present, a village walk (Guided)

Walk and learn about the village of Deanshanger

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Deanshanger Past and Present, a village walk (Guided)

Deanshanger, England MK19 6HT, United Kingdom

Created By: Graham

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A short walk around the village of Deanshanger in Northamptonshire.

The walk starts in the Churh of Holy Trinity Car Park and loops around most of the ancient core of the village stopping at a range of historic buildings.

Starting point using What3Words the car park is spared.maps.gladiator

The tour can be guided and the Pocketsights App will direct you around the trail. Or, if you know the area you can select roaming mode and find your own way.

When you reach a Point of Interest the app will tell you about it, sometimes with just text but sometimes with sound.


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Lord Penrhyn, who lived at Wicken Park (now Akeley Wood Junior School in Wicken), built the Holy Trinity Church in 1853 to meet the needs of the increased population that accompanied the Victorian growth of the village. The church was conse... Read more
The memorial was built in 1921 to commemorate the 15 men of Passenham and Deanshanger who fell in the First World War. It was unveiled by the Rt Hon Lord Penrhyn on 20 March 1921, costing £110. Following the Second World War, additional in... Read more
In the 1843 map of Deanshanger, it shows that Church Lane was formally known as Hospital Lane and reference to the deeds of properties in this area indicates that a workhouse or “Aspital” (hospital) stood on the site.  This was replace... Read more
The bridge commemorates the famous Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815.  It was constructed soon after the battle and replaced a ford over Kings Brook.  It was subsequently widened in more recent times as the volume of traffic in the vil... Read more
The deeds of 1826 refer to one house.  However, in 1877 the building consisted of a messuage (a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use) and six cottages adjoining, three of which had previously been occupied by Willi... Read more
Communication by post became affordable for the masses with the advent, in 1840, of the first national adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black. The setting up of the Penny Post meant letters could be sent for one penny and as a consequence... Read more
Boswell House - 25 High Street The current building, which now comprises of two attached dwellings, stands on the site of buildings shown on the 1608 and the 1773 maps of the village. In 1900, a mortgage was taken out by Thomas Eales, the t... Read more
The west end of Home Farm is the oldest part of the farm and is late 17th century.  This is substantiated by the discovery, under a window board, of a Charles ll farthing dating 1675.  The carved fireplace and stone mullions of this part ... Read more
In 1772, the house was owned by John Clarke, baker and son of a Wicken baker also called John Clarke.  The brick extension was the new bakehouse erected by Thomas Hyde in the latter part of 19th Century with originally, E & H Robert ov... Read more
The deeds for the original Woodman Arms commenced in 1834, but it was not named as a "public house" until the 1869 indenture.  It was a limestone building, double fronted and had 3 dormer windows in the tiled roof.  It was demolished in t... Read more
41 High Street and the cottage attached (no 39 High Street) are built from limestone and would originally have been thatched.  Records indicate that in 1701 they were bought by John Swannell who had founded a charity for teaching poor chil... Read more
The Union Baptist Chapel in the High Street was opened in 1898, replacing the chapel on the Green.  An extract from the Northampton Mercury, published Friday 6th November 1891, stated. "It is contemplated to erect a new Union Church at Dea... Read more
53 High Street was originally a farmhouse and records exist from 1673.  In 1772, the farm belonged to Paul Dayrell, whose family held the manor in Lillingstone Dayrell from the 12c until 1885.  In 1797, it was occupied by Thomas Richardso... Read more
The old foundry building, which has parts dating back to the early 1800s, was part of the factory which closed in 1999 and was the centre of village life and prosperity for nearly 200 years.  In 1820, Richard Roberts, a blacksmith from ne... Read more
Patrick's Lane runs from the High Street to The Green.  At this end of the Lane, across the Brook, are some stone cottages which are the remains of an earlier row of thatched dwellings.  In 1877, three of these caught fire and were burnt ... Read more
The present late 19th-century building, now the Co-operative store, replaced the original Fox and Hounds. This original building was a farmhouse with its own malthouse and the first deeds are from 1824.  However, there is a reference to pr... Read more
The first license for the Beehive was granted in 1836 to William Foddy.  By 1911 it was occupied by Archibald Thomas Webb.  During the Coronation of King George V that year, the Beehive was decorated with banners and flags and the brewery... Read more
The original building is 17th century, re-fronted and remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries. By 1878 the estate residence was called `Deanshanger House' and some years later, it became known as 'Manor House'.
In 1642, Anthony Carpenter, the owner of the Deanshanger Manor (now Dove House), founded a charity to distribute a sum of money every mid-Lent Sunday to 20 poor families in Deanshanger. The money was the income derived from the rents of se... Read more
Robinson House is a former bakehouse and butchers.  Richard Patrick, who gave his name to Patrick's Lane,  erected the detached house and outbuildings and this was used as the Bakehouse.  Alan Robinson was the last recorded baker to use ... Read more
In the late 19th century, piped water was provided in the village of Deanshanger and several standpipes were installed around the village.  These were supplied with gravity-fed water via underground pipes.  Villagers could then collect wa... Read more
Between 1682 and 1772, the premises were recorded as a farm, but in 1800 it was three cottages which were bought by Joseph Shimmell of Wicken who was a victualler (person who is licensed to sell alcohol).  Joseph Shimmel built a new house ... Read more
Lodore' was built in 1904 for Bertram Roberts and his new bride Florence Amy (nee Spoor).  Bertram was the eldest son of Henry Roberts who ran the Ironworks in partnership with his brother Edwin.  The building epitomised the new Edwardian... Read more
The old Stratford to Buckingham Canal was opened on the 1st of May 1801 as part of the Grand Union Network and ran through the middle of Deanshanger.  The transport benefits of the canal, such as brick and coal yards, encouraged the growth... Read more
In 1889, it was proposed that Deanshanger, was provided with a Conservative Club.  The building was estimated to cost £380 and Lord Penrhyn, who lived at Wicken Park (now Akeley Wood Junior School in Wicken), promised to contribute £200 ... Read more
Methodism was active in the village from the early 1840s, but there was no place of worship until the original chapel on the existing site was built and opened on 2nd December 1849. Its founders mortgaged their own properties to enable the ... Read more
A manor at Deanshanger is mentioned in the Forest Perambulation of 1299. Although this does not necessarily establish the existence of a manorial building, it is deduced that a house existed in the 14th century on the site of Dove House (Fa... Read more

 

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