Shuttlehanger or Shutlanger, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Shuttlehanger or Shutlanger, a township in Stoke Bruerne parish, Northamptonshire, 1 mile W of the village of Stoke Bruerne, and 2½ miles ENE of Towcester. Acreage, 1363; population, 360. There are a school chapel belonging to the Church of England, a Wesleyan chapel, and a curious quondam chapel formerly connected with the Cistercian nunnery of St Mary Magdalene at Sewardesley, now used for cottage tenements.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Shuttlehanger or Shutlanger from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shuttlehanger)
• 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 Shuttlehanger or Shutlanger 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:

• Northampton Mercury
• Northants Evening Telegraph