Woodend,_Northamptonshire

Woodend, Northamptonshire

Woodend, Northamptonshire

Human settlement in England

Woodend is a small village in West Northamptonshire in the English county of Northamptonshire.

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The village's name means 'at the end of the wood'.[1]

It is 6 miles (9.7 km) west of the town of Towcester[2] and was a hamlet in the parish of Blakesley until 1866, when it became a parish in its own right. After World War I it was designated a "thankful village", all of the soldiers it sent to war having returned safely. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 322.[3]

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Lane from Green's Park
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Woodend Cottages
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Houses at Green's Park
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Heading out of the Village towards Blakesley

There is a Barrow about 250 yards east of Green's Park Farm.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Key to English Place-names".
  2. [2]
    "History of Woodend in South Northamptonshire | Map and description". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  4. [4]
    Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 106–7. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.

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