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'''Moreton Pinkney''' is a village and ] in the ] county of ]. | |||
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|official_name= Moreton Pinkney | |||
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|static_image_caption= Lodge and gateway to the manor house | |||
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|population= 371 | |||
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|civil_parish= Moreton Pinkney | |||
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|region= East Midlands | |||
|country= England | |||
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|postcode_district= NN11 | |||
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'''Moreton Pinkney''' is a village and ] in ], about {{convert|7.5|mi|0}} north of ]. The ] recorded the parish's population as 371.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126681&c=Moreton+Pinkney&d=16&e=62&g=6452471&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1384639863962&enc=1 |title=Area: Moreton Pinkney (Parish); Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=16 November 2013}}</ref> | |||
It is in the south west of the county, forming part of the district of ]. | |||
The villages name means 'Moor farm/settlement'. It was held by the family of Pinchengi from 1199. In the 13th century, it was known as Geldenmortone, from ] 'gylden' meaning, 'golden', probably because of its especial wealth.<ref>http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Moreton%20Pinkney</ref> | |||
It once had two railway stations, one to the North on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (later part of the LMS), but this closed in April 1952 and one to the South of the village called 'Culworth Station'. | |||
==Manor== | |||
One review states: | |||
In the reign of ] one Leuric held the ] of Moreton "freely",<ref name=Adkins>{{harvnb|Adkins|Serjeantson|1902|p=344.}}</ref> ''i.e.'' without a ] overlord. He was dispossessed after the ] and the ] of 1086 records that one Geoffrey held the manor of Gilo, brother of ].<ref name=Adkins/> In the 12th century Henry de Pinkeny ''(sic)'' held the manor.{{sfn|Adkins|Serjeantson|1902|p=372}} In both surveys the manor was assessed at one and a half ].<ref name=Adkins/>{{sfn|Adkins|Serjeantson|1902|p=372}} | |||
"Moreton Pinkney is a small village lying at the bottom of the hill leading up to Canons Ashby. The rainbow affect from the oil in the murky brook going along the northern edge of the village soon reminds you that there are people living in the village that come out of their houses occasionally. | |||
Surrounded by villages which are well known for their 18th century architecture using local 'brown' iron stone, Moreton Pinkney is relatively below par with a mixture of old and 1950's council houses. There are some nice houses in the centre including the Manor complex. | |||
==Parish church== | |||
There are many attractions in the village including a church and two public toilets. The only pub closed c2004. There's no shop, and no post office. The only time you can get something to eat is twice a week when the butcher van comes round. | |||
The earliest evidence of Christianity in the parish is a fragment of an ] stone cross in the churchyard of the ] of ].<ref name=Pevsner307>{{harvnb|Pevsner|Cherry|1973|p=307.}}</ref> The church itself was built in the 12th century,<ref name=EH-church>{{NHLE |num= 1293734 |desc=Church of St Mary |date=4 February 1969 |accessdate=16 November 2013}}</ref> which is the date of its ] north door and three-] northern ].<ref name=Pevsner307/> The ] and west tower date from about 1300.<ref name=Pevsner307/> St Mary's is a ].<ref name=EH-church/> | |||
It is very quiet mainly because most people only come back to their houses for sleep and food. But you may find some kids in the park trying to find something to do. Tuesdays are the most exciting days for the kids because it is bowls night, where they can go a socialise with the pros from the village team. Come on you maroons. | |||
The ] ] had appropriated "the spirituality" of St Mary's by 1254.<ref name=Serjeantson>{{harvnb|Serjeantson|Adkins|1906|pp=130–133}}</ref> ], ], sanctioned this retrospectively in 1309.<ref name=Serjeantson/> | |||
Just when you were thinking 'how could my day get any better?!' you could even catch the landscape gardeners cutting the grass. Only if you are having a really lucky day. | |||
The ] was rebuilt in 1846 in a ] of a 13th-century style.<ref name=Pevsner307/> | |||
But don’t just take my word for it - come see this wonderful place for yourself. If you want the full 'Moreton experience' then bring your tent and camp out the back of the abandoned pub." | |||
St Mary's has a ] of six bells. Hugh II Watts, who had foundries in ] and ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founders.php |title=Bell Founders |author=Dovemaster |date=31 October 2012 |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=10 July 2011}}</ref> cast the tenor bell in 1629.<ref name=Dove>{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Moreton+Pinkney&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=MORETON+PI |title=Moreton Pinkney S Mary V |last=Dawson |first=George |date=31 July 2007 |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=10 July 2011}}</ref> The ] cast the other five bells in 1996.<ref name=Dove/> | |||
This amazing village is also name checked in a popular regional joke, told through the generations by residents of surrounding villages:<br /> | |||
Q:What's the definition of a Moreton Pinkney virgin?<br /> | |||
A:Someone who can run away from their Dads. | |||
St Mary's parish is a member of the ] of ] with ] and ] and ] with ] and Moreton Pinkney.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=28/058DH&V=16393 |title=Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney |author=Archbishops' Council |author-link=Archbishops' Council |year=2010 |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525072612/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=28%2F058DH&V=16393 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
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==Social and economic history== | |||
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Moreton Pinkney village is a mixture of traditional houses in grey stone and brown ironstone.<ref name=Pevsner307/> | |||
The parish school was built in 1822 and enlarged in 1876.<ref name=Pevsner307/> Moreton Pinkney Manor was built in 1859 and altered in 1870.<ref name=Pevsner307/> The entrance arch designed by the architect ] of Northampton, built in 1859 and bears the arms of ].<ref name=Pevsner307/> Please note: Historic England Listing, place the Manor earlier than 1859. It notes that irregular gable ends at rear of building existing C17 yet remodelled in 19C. | |||
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===Public Houses=== | |||
Moreton Pinkney once had three ]s: The Red Lion and The Dun Cow on Upper Green, and The Crown Inn on Brook Street.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} | |||
The Red Lion was more recently named England's Rose, a reference to ], which suddenly closed in 2004 due to serious structural failure.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/|title=Our History - The Four Candles Pub - Moreton Pinkney|newspaper=The Four Candles Pub - Moreton Pinkney|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221234018/http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> After being closed and remaining derelict for 12 years, the historic ] public house dating back to 1604 was fully and sympathetically restored as a pub and restaurant which was subsequently renamed The Four Candles by public vote. | |||
The Four Candles which is set within a protected conservation area is now the only pub left in the village and re-opened to the public on 26 May 2016 after a 10 month renovation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/|title=Moreton Pinkney History|newspaper=The Four Candles - Moreton Pinkney|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221234018/http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
The Four Candles was repossessed from the leaseholders by administrators after the freeholder declared bankruptcy in the summer of 2017. The pub and restaurant freehold was subsequently purchased in February 2019 and is currently under minor renovation and retrofit before being re-opened to an as-yet, undisclosed date. | |||
===Railways=== | |||
The parish had two railway stations. The ] (later the ]) was built through the parish with ] being opened in 1873 {{convert|1/4|mi|1|adj=on}} north of the village on the parish boundary with ]. | |||
The ] from {{rws|Nottingham Victoria}} to ] was built through the parish in the 1890s and opened in 1899. Its nearest station was {{rws|Culworth}}, which was actually in Moreton Pinkney parish about {{convert|3/4|mi|adj=on}} southwest of the village on the road to ]. In 1900 the ] added a branch line from Culworth Junction in the parish to {{rws|Banbury}} in ]. | |||
]ways closed Morton Pinkney station in 1952 and Culworth station in 1958. The 1963 '']'' report recommended that BR close the Great Central main line, which it did in 1966. | |||
==References== | |||
] through the parish, opened in 1899 and closed in 1966]] | |||
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==Sources and further reading== | |||
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Adkins |editor1-first=W.R.D. |editor1-link=Ryland Adkins |editor2-last=Serjeantson |editor2-first=R.M. |year=1902 |title=A History of the County of Northampton |volume=1 |series=] |location=Westminster |publisher=] & Co }} | |||
*{{cite web |url=http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/ |title=Our History, The Four Candles |last=Murphy |first=Roy |publisher=Theoretix Ltd |date=26 November 2016 |website=The Four Candles, Moreton Pinkney |access-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221234018/http://moretonpinkney.pub/home/about-us/our-history/ |archive-date=21 December 2016 |url-status=dead }} | |||
*{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author-link1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Cherry |first2=Bridget |year=1973 |orig-year=1961 |title=Northamptonshire |series=] |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=] |isbn=0-14-071022-1 |page=307 }} | |||
*{{cite book |editor=RCHME |year=1982 |chapter=Moreton Pinkney |title=An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire |volume=4 – Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire |location=London |publisher=] |pages=102–103 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=126571 }} | |||
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Serjeantson |editor1-first=R.M. |editor2-last=Adkins |editor2-first=W.R.D. |editor2-link=Ryland Adkins |year=1906 |chapter=The Priory of Canons Ashby |title=A History of the County of Northampton |volume=2 |series=] |location=Westminster |publisher=] & Co |pages=130–133 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40232 }} | |||
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Human settlement in England
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Moreton PinkneyLocation within Northamptonshire | |
Population | 371 (2011 Census) |
OS grid reference | SP5749 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Daventry |
Postcode district | NN11 |
Dialling code | 01295 |
Police | Northamptonshire |
Fire | Northamptonshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Website | Moreton Pinkney |
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Moreton Pinkney is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, about 7.5 miles (12 km) north of Brackley. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 371.
The villages name means 'Moor farm/settlement'. It was held by the family of Pinchengi from 1199. In the 13th century, it was known as Geldenmortone, from Old English 'gylden' meaning, 'golden', probably because of its especial wealth.
Manor
In the reign of Edward the Confessor one Leuric held the manor of Moreton "freely", 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, brother of Ansculf de Picquigny. In the 12th century Henry de Pinkeny (sic) held the manor. In both surveys the manor was assessed at one and a half hides.
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. The church itself was built in the 12th century, which is the date of its Norman north door and three-bay northern arcade. The piscina and west tower date from about 1300. St Mary's is a Grade II* listed building.
The Augustinian Canons Ashby Priory had appropriated "the spirituality" of St Mary's by 1254. John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln, sanctioned this retrospectively in 1309.
The chancel was rebuilt in 1846 in a Gothic Revival of a 13th-century style.
St Mary's has a ring of six bells. Hugh II Watts, who had foundries in Bedford and Leicester, cast the tenor bell in 1629. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the other five bells in 1996.
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.
Social and economic history
Moreton Pinkney village is a mixture of traditional houses in grey stone and brown ironstone.
The parish school was built in 1822 and enlarged in 1876. Moreton Pinkney Manor was built in 1859 and altered in 1870. The entrance arch designed by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, built in 1859 and bears the arms of Lord Sempill. Please note: Historic England Listing, place the Manor earlier than 1859. It notes that irregular gable ends at rear of building existing C17 yet remodelled in 19C.
Public Houses
Moreton Pinkney once had three public houses: The Red Lion and The Dun Cow on Upper Green, and The Crown Inn on Brook Street.
The Red Lion was more recently named England's Rose, a reference to Diana, Princess of Wales, which suddenly closed in 2004 due to serious structural failure. After being closed and remaining derelict for 12 years, the historic Grade II listed public house dating back to 1604 was fully and sympathetically restored as a pub and restaurant which was subsequently renamed The Four Candles by public vote.
The Four Candles which is set within a protected conservation area is now the only pub left in the village and re-opened to the public on 26 May 2016 after a 10 month renovation.
The Four Candles was repossessed from the leaseholders by administrators after the freeholder declared bankruptcy in the summer of 2017. The pub and restaurant freehold was subsequently purchased in February 2019 and is currently under minor renovation and retrofit before being re-opened to an as-yet, undisclosed date.
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 1⁄4-mile (0.4 km) 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 3⁄4-mile (1.2 km) 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
- "Area: Moreton Pinkney (Parish); Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Moreton%20Pinkney
- ^ Adkins & Serjeantson 1902, p. 344.
- ^ Adkins & Serjeantson 1902, p. 372.
- ^ Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 307.
- ^ Historic England (4 February 1969). "Church of St Mary (1293734)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- ^ Serjeantson & Adkins 1906, pp. 130–133
- Dovemaster (31 October 2012). "Bell Founders". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
- ^ Dawson, George (31 July 2007). "Moreton Pinkney S Mary V". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
- Archbishops' Council (2010). "Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney". A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- "Our History - The Four Candles Pub - Moreton Pinkney". The Four Candles Pub - Moreton Pinkney. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- "Moreton Pinkney History". The Four Candles - Moreton Pinkney. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
Sources and further reading
- Adkins, W.R.D.; Serjeantson, R.M., eds. (1902). A History of the County of Northampton. Victoria County History. Vol. 1. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co.
- Murphy, Roy (26 November 2016). "Our History, The Four Candles". The Four Candles, Moreton Pinkney. Theoretix Ltd. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1973) . Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 307. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
- RCHME, ed. (1982). "Moreton Pinkney". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire. Vol. 4 – Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. pp. 102–103.
- Serjeantson, R.M.; Adkins, W.R.D., eds. (1906). "The Priory of Canons Ashby". A History of the County of Northampton. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 130–133.