West Haddon, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Haddon, West, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands 3½ miles NE from Crick station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8 NE from Daventry. and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugby. The parish comprises 2700 acres; population, 788. The manor belongs to H. H. Atterbury, Esq. Oster Hill, where P. Ostorius was buried, is here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £290 with residence. The church, which is an edifice of stone in the Norman, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and square embattled tower, and is very good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed parochial school.
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 | West Haddon All Saints | |
| Hundred | Guilsborough | |
| Poor Law union | Daventry |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1653.
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
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Norman, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells and a clock: the chancel retains a piscina, and there are Decorated and Perpendicular piscinæ in the south aisle: the font, of Norman date, is a cubical mass of stone, with a band of carving round the upper part, representing scenes in the life of Our Lord: the basin is simply hollowed out of the block: the church chest of carved oak has been presented by the vicar and churchwardens to the Northampton museum: the church was restored in 1887-1894, at a cost of £2,000, and again in 1908 at a cost of over £500: the chancel has been refitted in oak and a fine carved pulpit erected; the organ was the gift of John Heygate esq.: an oak reredos and chancel screen were added in 1910 at a cost of £300: a blocked door has been discovered in good preservation: in the south aisle is a memorial window to Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. Hugh Maltby Spence M.A. vicar, d. 23rd Dec. 1826, erected in 1869: in the north aisle is another to Thomas Walter Slye M.R.C.S. and Elizabeth, his wife, and to Charles John Slye and Ann, his wife, erected in 1879 by their son and brother William Walter Slye, of Thorndale House, West Haddon; the east window is a memorial to the late Henry H. Atterbury esq. and cost £102: there is also a memorial window to William Walter Slye, erected by Miss Nunn in 1906: there are sittings for 400 persons.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for West Haddon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Haddon, West (All Saints))
- 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 West Haddon 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: