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Thorpe Waterville
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Thorpe Waterville is located in Northamptonshire
Thorpe Waterville
Thorpe Waterville
Location within Northamptonshire
OS grid referenceTL0281
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKettering
Postcode districtNN14
Dialling code01832
PoliceNorthamptonshire
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AmbulanceEast Midlands
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52°25′25″N 0°29′47″W / 52.4236°N 0.4964°W / 52.4236; -0.4964

Thorpe Waterville is a village in the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England. It was first attested in 1199 as Torp(e), and Thorp Watervile in 1300. Ascelin de Waterville was a landowner in the area in the 12th century.[1][2]

Geography and administration

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Thorpe Waterville lies on the A605 road,[3] three miles north-east of the town of Thrapston. It is located close to the River Nene.[4]

Thorpe Waterville is one of the two main settlements in the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch, the other being Achurch.[5] The parish of Thorpe Achurch was united with the neighbouring parish of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe in 1778 for ecclesiastical purposes.[6] They remain separate civil parishes, but share a grouped parish council.[7]

Historical buildings

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Thorpe Waterville Castle, of which only a building used as a barn remains, was mainly the work of Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Treasurer to King Edward I.

Chapel Cottage bears a date stone marked with the year 1618, which is carved into the right hand side of the ingle nook fireplace. Reference to this the date stone is made in R. Gough's 1806 Translation of Camden's Britannia with Additions, Northamptonshire p. 283:

Robert Brown, founder of the sect of the Browniſts, [...] resided in a little thatched house in Thorpe Waterville which is still subsisting, with a date on the chimney 1618

During its renovation in the late 1970s, following a thatch roof fire, builders discovered what was rumoured to be one end of a tunnel stretching from the Manor House[specify] to Chapel Cottage. The owners of the cottage were reluctant to excavate the tunnel entrance fully so the validity of this cannot be confirmed.

References

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  1. ^ "Thorpe Waterville". Survey of English Place-Names. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  2. ^ Page, William, ed. (1930). Parishes: Thorpe Achurch. A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3. London: Victoria County History. pp. 135–139. Retrieved 7 May 2025 – via British History Online.
  3. ^ "Driver arrested after fatal four-vehicle crash near Thrapston". www.bbc.com. 16 July 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Areas near the River Nene from Thorpe Waterville to Eaglethorpe flood warning area - GOV.UK". check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk. 12 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  6. ^ Page, William, ed. (1930). A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3. London: Victoria County History. pp. 227–231. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Lilford Wigsthorpe Thorpe Achurch Parish Council". Retrieved 11 October 2025.
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