Chelveston

Chelveston
The Church at Chelveston, in 2005
Chelveston is located in Northamptonshire
Chelveston
Chelveston
Location within Northamptonshire
Population541 (2001)
OS grid referenceSP9972
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWELLINGBOROUGH
Postcode districtNN9
Dialling code01933
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FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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52°20′13″N 0°32′53″W / 52.337°N 0.548°W / 52.337; -0.548

Chelveston is a small village in North Northamptonshire. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Higham Ferrers and 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Wellingborough on the B645 (former A45 road) from Higham Ferrers to St Neots. To the south is the hamlet of Caldecott and the settlement of Chelston Rise which together comprise the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott. The population is now included in the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott.

History

The villages name means 'Ceolwulfs farm/settlement'.[1] At the time of the Domesday Book, 1086, Chelveston came under the manor of Higham Ferrers and later was awarded by the crown to different noble families. In the 1550s the manor of Chelveston was acquired by the Ekins family, who passed it down by inheritance until 1694.[2]

The last lords of the manor of Chelveston were the Disbrowe family, and the last lord, Lt. Col. Henry Edward Disbrowe Disbrowe-Wise CBE, who had inherited the title from his mother, sold off the last of the family's estate properties in Chelveston at auction in July 1919. Disbrowe-Wise moved to other family properties in South Derbyshire.[3] Disbrowe Court in the village is named after them.

Parish Church

The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist and is mostly 13th century.[4] The north arcade is 1849-50 by Edmund Francis Law, a Northampton architect. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Village Hall

Formerly the village's two room school with adjacent schoolmasters house, the school was closed in 1967 and was re-opened in 1972 as the Village Hall. In 2014 it was refurbished and extended with new toilets, shower and kitchen facilities.

Heritage assets

The following buildings and structures are listed by Historic England as of special architectural or historic interest.[5]

RAF Chelveston

Main article: RAF Chelveston

Nearby is the former airfield of RAF Chelveston. A new memorial to the 305th Bombardment Group (Heavy) who operated out of the airfield, was unveiled in the centre of the village on 26 May 2007.

Demography

  • In 1801 there were 266 persons[6]
  • In 1831 there were 332 persons[6]
  • In 1841 there were 288 persons[6]
  • In 2011 there were 566 persons[7]

Chelston Rise

Beyond Caldecott is a settlement of 50 houses which were formerly used by the US Air Force to house families working at nearby bases. The site was owned by Area Estates Ltd. Some of the houses were rented out and others sold privately. This community has been renamed Chelston Rise (from the old name for Chelveston). A resident run management company took control of the private estate in 2015 when the last house was sold and has continued to run as a private estate since then.

Nearby Settlements

References

  1. ^ "Key to English Place-names".
  2. ^ "Parishes: Chelveston-cum-Caldecott Pages 8-11 A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4". British History Online. Victoria County History, 1937. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ Lords of the Manor, Chelveston-pc.gov.uk
  4. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
  5. ^ National Heritage List for England (Historic England)
  6. ^ a b c William Whellan & Co. (1849). History, Gazetteer and Directory Northamptonshire. Whittaker & Co. p. 885.
  7. ^ Office for National Statistics, Census

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