Charlton,_Northamptonshire

Charlton, Northamptonshire

Charlton, Northamptonshire

Human settlement in England

Charlton is a village in the parish of Newbottle, Northamptonshire, England in between Brackley and Kings Sutton, lying close to a small tributary of the River Cherwell. At the 2011 census the population was included in the civil parish of Newbottle, with a total population of around 540.[1]

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Other nearby villages include Croughton, Aynho and Hinton-in-the-Hedges. The remains of an Iron Age fort, Rainsborough Camp, lie just to the south of the village.[2]

The lawyer and politician F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead lived on Main Street in the village, in a house called The Cottage.[3] He took as his second peerage title Viscount Furneaux of Charlton, and his ashes are buried in the village cemetery.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Charlton and Newbottle-Welcome". Charlton and Newbottle Village Website. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Newbottle". British History Online. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. [3]
    Historic England. "The Cottage (Grade II) (1265934)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. [4]
    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 51. Oxford University Press. 2004. pp. 114–118.

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