Moreton Pinkney
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| Population | 371 (2011 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | SP5749 |
| Civil parish | Moreton Pinkney |
| District | South Northamptonshire |
| Shire county | Northamptonshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Daventry |
| Postcode district | NN11 |
| Dialling code | 01295 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Daventry |
| Website | Moreton Pinkney |
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Moreton Pinkney is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, about 7.5 miles (12 km) north of Brackley. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 371.[1]
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Manor
In the reign of Edward the Confessor one Leuric held the manor of Moreton "freely",[2] i.e. without a feudal overlord. He was dispossessed after the Norman Conquest of England and the Domesday Book of 1086 records that one Geoffrey held the manor of Gilo, bother of Ansculf de Picquigny.[2] "Pinkney" is a corruption of "Picquigny", a village in Picardy.[3] In the 12th century Henry de Pinkeny (sic) held the manor.[4] In both surveys the manor was assessed at one and a half hides.[2][4]
Parish church
The earliest evidence of Christianity in the parish is a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon stone cross in the churchyard of the Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin.[5] The church itself was built in the 12th century,[6] which is the date of its Norman north door and three-bay northern arcade.[5] The piscina and west tower date from about 1300.[5] St Mary's is a Grade II* listed building.[6]
The Augustinian Canons Ashby Priory had appropriated "the spirituality" of St Mary's by 1254.[7] John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln, sanctioned this retrospectively in 1309.[7]
The chancel was rebuilt in 1846 in a Gothic Revival of a 13th-century style.[5]
St Mary's has a ring of six bells. Hugh II Watts, who had foundries in Bedford and Leicester,[8] cast the tenor bell in 1629.[9] The Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the other five bells in 1996.[9]
St Mary's parish is a member of the Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.[10]
Social and economic history
Moreton Pinkney village is a mixture of traditional houses in grey stone and brown ironstone.[5]
Moreton Pinkney once had three public houses: The Crown on Brook Street and the Red Lion and Dun Cow on Upper Green.[citation needed] The Red Lion was more recently called England's Rose, a reference to Diana, Princess of Wales, and closed in about 2004.[citation needed] In 2012 the site was being redeveloped.[citation needed]
The parish school was built in 1822 and enlarged in 1876.[5] Moreton Pinkney Manor was built in 1859 and altered in 1870.[5] The entrance arch designed by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, built in 1859 and bears the arms of Lord Sempill.[5]
Railways
The parish had two railway stations. The East and West Junction Railway (later the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway) was built through the parish with Morton Pinkney railway station being opened in 1873 Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). north of the village on the parish boundary with Canons Ashby.
The Great Central Main Line from Nottingham Victoria to London Marylebone was built through the parish in the 1890s and opened in 1899. Its nearest station was Culworth, which was actually in Moreton Pinkney parish about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). southwest of the village on the road to Culworth. In 1900 the Great Central Railway added a branch line from Culworth Junction in the parish to Banbury in Oxfordshire.
British Railways closed Morton Pinkney station in 1952 and Culworth station in 1958. The 1963 The Reshaping of British Railways report recommended that BR close the Great Central main line, which it did in 1966.
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Adkins & Serjeantson 1902, p. 344.
- ↑ Adkins & Serjeantson 1902, p. 291.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Adkins & Serjeantson 1902, p. 372.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 307.
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Serjeantson & Adkins 1906, pp. 130–133
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