Arthingworth is a

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and village in the

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area of the county of

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, England.OS Explorer Map Map 223 - Northampton & Market Harborough (1:25 000) The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 238. The villages name probably means, 'enclosure connected with Earn(a)'.Earn referring to a river, suggesting the village was near a body of water. In the Domesday book the village appears as Erthingworde, at the time of the Domesday survey the village was owned by William the Conqueror.

Location and communications

The nearest towns are

Market Harborough Market Harborough is a market town in the Harborough District, Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, close to the border with Northamptonshire. The population was 24,779 at the United Kingdom census, 2021, 2021 census. It is the ad ...

about north and

Kettering Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, England, Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north- ...

east via the A14 road which connects the town to the M1, M6 and

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s. Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Kelmarsh railway station about 1 mile south-west of the village and running trains between

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in the south and

in the north.

Administration

The village has its own Parish Council.

Notable buildings

The Historic England website contains details of a total of eight listed buildings in the parish of Arthingworth, all of which are Grade II apart from St Andrew's Church, which is Grade II*. They include: * St Andrew's Church, Braybrooke Road *Arthingworth Lodge, Kelmarsh Road * Arthingworth Manor. This was left as a shell in 1967 revealing walls probably from an older house. A stable block remains, now converted to a house but incorporating the Manor House staircase. *Bosworth House *Glebe House, Kelmarsh Road *Hall Farmhouse, Oxendon Road

References

External links

* * Villages in Northamptonshire West Northamptonshire District Civil parishes in Northamptonshire {{Northamptonshire-geo-stub