Great Doddington, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Doddington, Great, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, 1½ mile SW from Wellingborough station on the L. & N.W.R., and 2½ S by W from Wellingborough. Post town, money order and telegraph office, Wellingborough. Acreage, 1628; population, 551. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £122. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an interesting building of stone in the Norman and Later style. There are' Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Many of the inhabitants are shoemakers.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Doddington St. Luke | |
Hundred | Hamfordshoe | |
Poor Law union | Wellingborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of baptisms, marriages and burials dates from the year 1560.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
St. Luke (parish church)
The church of St. Luke, situated on high ground, is an interesting edifice of stone in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a western tower of Norman date, with pinnacles, and containing 5 bells: the chancel retains four ancient oak stalls, two piscinæ and two sedilia: there is also a piscina at the east end of the south aisle: in the church, chained and locked with their original fastenings, are a book of "Homilies," a Bible dated 1613, and a copy of the Paraphrase of Erasmus on the New Testament, in black letters in the pavement of the nave is an inscribed brass in Norman French to William de Patteshull, ob. 1359: the original hour-glass stand still remains, and a glass, dated 1691, bearing letters I M K has been presented to the church: in 1871 the church was renovated and restored at a cost of £1,300, when on removing the plaster from the south side of the chancel arch a mural painting of the "Crucifixion" was discovered: there are sittings for 320 persons.
Congregational
Congregational chapel
There is a Congregational chapel here, built in 1819.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist chapel
There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1863, to seat 150 persons
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Doddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Doddington, Great (St. Luke))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Doddington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: