Article by Douglas Ashby from the Northamptonshire Past and Present, Issue No 52, 1999 transcribed and presented by Margaret CraddockIn the Domesday Book (insert link to early History page) of 1086 the township is recorded as Burtone and the name is probably derived...
Article by Bill Watson, October 201046b High Street, Burton Latimer, in October 2010 - seen from the yard behind the shopsI was born at St.Mary’s Hospital in Kettering on the 12th of April 1956. My parents, Margaret and Wilfred Watson lived in the top floor flat at...
Article from the Kettering Leader and Guardian, December 6th 1957, transcribed by Sally Crane.Note: The flats referred to in this article are the ones which were eventually built (in modified form) in the early 1960s as part of the Latimer Close/Burton House...
Adapted from a copy of “Commoner: common right, enclosure and social change in England , 1700 -1820 by Jeanett Neeson” transcribed by Sally CraneThe parliamentary enclosure movement began to take hold in Northamptonshire in the mid-1760’s, just before the great peak...
An example of an Enclosure AwardA typical enclosure mapFor much of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England all occupiers of common-field land and many cottages shared common grazing over common fields and wastes. In forest and fen manors, and others...
Kettering Evening Telegraph, April 5th 1989You would have to undertake an internal inspection to gain full appreciation of the overall size and condition of the exceptional Victorian bay windowed detached residence, featured above and right. The spacious family...
The first assessments of 1692-3 were made under the terms of "An Act for granting to their Majesties an aid of four shillings in the pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous war against France" [4W. & M.c.1,1692/3]. The Act specified that real estate and personal...
Indexed by Kay Collins from Documents at Northants Record OfficeLinks to other Land Tax sectionsThe listings are by parish, grouped by Hundreds, and give Proprietor and Occupier together with the amount of tax paid. Where a redemption is mentioned (e.g. Cold Ashby)...
Information from Michael Putman, great-grandson of Harry Holley, given Dec 2007Harry Holley (second from left at the back ) at the wedding of son John (Jack ) Holley to Florence Rogers,Mary Ann Holley is seated in the front on the left of the picture.My Great...
Article from Kettering Evening Telegraph, July 26th 1999The Round House 1999Photograph of Andrew Corney, youngest son of the family.There are round, unusual and historic houses, but few come together in quite such an intriguing fashion as Round House Farm, Finedon....
Article written by Douglas Ashby July 1999Not many people realise that the Round House standing at the side of the Finedon to Thrapston road is actually in the Parish of Burton Latimer. It stands at a point where the boundaries of Addington, Woodford and Finedon also...
Special newspaper article from the Evening Telegraph dated 1 December 1927Discussing local folk lore and interesting buildings in this part of the county with a veteran who has spent the whole of his life – about half-way between eighty and ninety years – in this...
By Margaret CraddockThis folly was constructed on the Thrapston Road leading from Finedon and although in the parish of Burton Latimer, it stands where the boundaries of Addington, Woodford and Finedon also meet. It was built in the early and mid 19th century and has...
Article partly resourced from local newspaper (1971)This property was probably a shop for a considerable part of the 19th century. Harry and Mary Buckby, who lived in the cottage next door at number 4, sold sweets and confectionery there from the early 1890s. They had...
Association Link here!! 8. Fern Bank, Church Lane, c.1888. At the gate stands the housekeeper, Hannah Williamson. This property with its long garden was for many years the home of several unmarried Harpur ladies. Miss Ellen Harpur who died in 1896 was followed by her...
Mill Cottage is the last remnant of Burton's South Mill, which was destroyed by fire and demolished in 1936. the advert below is taken from a newspaper cutting when the property came up for sale in the 1980s. Unique opportunity Double fronted stone cottage with two...