Ashley, Northamptonshire
The village's name means 'ash-tree wood/clearing'.
Notable buildings
The village church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and was mostly rebuilt by Sir George Gilbert Scott at a cost of £2,000 in 1867 for the Rev Richard Pulteney, rector 1853-74 and also the Squire.
The Manor House was also remodelled for Pulteney by Edmund Francis Law in 1865. Pulteney also got Scott to build a Gothic village school (1858) and Masters House (1865)
Roman villa
The remains were found in Alderstone field in the 19th century during railway construction of the line from Market Harborough to Peterborough and Stamford just north of the village, which had its own station (Ashley and Weston railway station). The site was close to the Roman Road from Leicester to Cambridge. Excavations in 1969-71 show a villa and outbuildings close to the road.
Village events
Every Easter Monday there is a tug of war match against the neighbouring village of Medbourne.
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ^ "Ashley CP: Parish headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ "Ashley". Key to English Place-names. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 93–4. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
External links
- Ashley in the Domesday Book