Sywell is a village and

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

, England. At the time of the 2011 census, the population was 792. The name Sywell is thought to mean seven wells.

Facilities

The facilities found in the village include: *The church (

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St Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

) * Sywell Aerodrome, opened in 1928 and active during

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*Aviation Museum *The Horseshoe pub *Overstone Squash Club *Overstone Solarium (

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) *The Overstone Manor (family pub) *

Sywell Reservoir Sywell Country Park exists on the site of a former drinking water reservoir near the village of Sywell in East Northamptonshire, England. The reservoir was built at the turn of the 20th century to supply water to the Higham Ferrers and Rushden a ...

(redundant as a working reservoir and now a country park) *Overstone Park Cricket Club *Sywell CEVA Primary School * Drome Park home of

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The Ecton Lane part of the village is built just inside the walls of Overstone Hall; the estate wall is of fine quality and in village

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is said to be seven feet high, be seven miles long and took seven men seven years to build.

Pevsner on Sywell

Church - this has a short tower dating to the 13th century. The pretty stair projection found in the west side of the church is not medieval as it appears. Renovations dating from the 1870s have left the church with an odd feel. There is a stained glass window by Thomas Willement dating from 1839, which is very fine. It uses heraldic glass dating from 1580. Sywell Hall - the hall has a long straight front with two small and one larger gable ends. The house appears to originally date from

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times. Village - many local houses were rebuilt by Lady Overstone in the 1860s - with the (old) school dating to 1861 and the rectory's rebuilding to 1862. The church's plate dates from 1816 and is the work of Patten. The airfield hosts an annual concert called "Music in the Ai

A combination of classical music and aviation.

Links with the village from the ''Dictionary of National Biography''

*Anthony Jenkinson, merchant, sea-captain, and traveller married Judith Mersh of Sywell in 1567. In 1578 he bought the village from his father in law and moved to the village. *Lewis Atterbury was appointed Rector (ecclesiastical), rector of the village in 1684. * William Lancaster (died 1717) - scholar; was married to a daughter of a Mr Wilmer from Sywell. * Admiral Sir

Watkin Owen Watkin is an English surname formed as a diminutive of the name Watt (also Wat), a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter. First found in a small Welsh village in 1629. Within the United Kingdom it is asso ...

was the son of Samuel Pell of Sywell Hall. *

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Archibald Robertson (

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) was born at Sywell in 1853. * William Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 1450) was the eldest son of Thomas Tresham of Sywell. He was also the father of another speaker Thomas Tresham (died 1471).

References

*The Buildings of England - Northamptonshire. N Pevsner (Second edition). *Dictionary of National Biography

External links

Aviation museum
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