Shutlanger
The village's name means 'Shuttle sloping-wood', maybe alluding to where shuttles, bolts or bars were made or acquired.
In 1881 Shutlanger parish's total population was 403. In 1901 it was 339 and by 1971 it had dropped to 233. At the time of the 2001 census, it was 270 people, increasing to 290 at the 2011 census.
There was a great medieval house here called the Monastery, but it was just a house and not a monastery in the normal sense. The village is close to Stoke Park Pavilions and originally part of the Stoke Park estate with the first Palladian-style English country house. The building is a Grade I listed Building. Famous residents includes ancestors of the Richardson gang.
Shutlanger has its own Parish Council and belongs to the church grouping with Stoke Bruerne and Grafton Regis. The village has a pub (named The Plough) and a village hall. The nearest primary school and church are at Stoke Bruerne one mile east of Shutlanger.
References
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ "A Vision of Britain - extensive local statistical data". Retrieved 18 August 2008.
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Shutlanger CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 19 November 2009 Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ Emery, Anthony (1996). Greater medieval houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: 1300-1500. Cambridge University Press. p. 449. ISBN 0-521-58131-1.
- ^ "The Monastery, Shutlanger". Details of the listing for the monastery. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ "Parish Newsletters". Archived from the original on 19 August 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
External links
Media related to Shutlanger at Wikimedia Commons