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Nice village church

Take a break, read or swap books at the Acorn Barn.

Opened on 1st May 1815, the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union Canal includes 17 locks and connects the canal with the River Nene in Northampton.

The church stands at the centre of an Iron Age hillfort. Church Way follows the curve of the eastern rampart, you can see the western rampart running through the field. Good views from here.

The name Preston Capes is derived partly from Preosta-tun (Anglo-Saxon for the priests enclosure). Some lovely Northamptonshire houses as you ascend. More on the village https://www.prestoncapes.org.uk/

Very good coffee and warm sausage rolls

....an honour shared with The Countryman in Staverton, both a lofty 172m

Chipping Warden is a typically pretty village for the area. Smaller than some of its more famous neighbours but no less picturesque. A good spot to rest and seek refreshment.

Chipping Warden is a Northamptonshire village with a rich history. On the River Cherwell, to the east, are the remains of a Roman villa, while just to the south of the village is an Iron Age hillfort, Arbury Banks. The village sits on the Jurassic Way long-distance trail. Walkers in need of a pitstop will be delighted that there are two pubs: the Griffin and the Rose and Crown.

Ventilation chimney for the grand Union Canal Tunnel below wow.

Excellent cakes to be enjoyed with a coffee

This landmark is a ventilation tunnel for the Grand Union Canal, which passes under the field through the Blisworth Tunnel at this point.

excellent coffee stop

Beautifully ornate gated entrance to the Canons Ashby gardens can be seen from just past the main car park entrance.

Horse and more recently greyhound racing at the famous Towcester racecourse, you can glimpse the tracks and main building through the main gates and as you ride around the wall surrounding the grounds. Worth checking if there are any events running during your visit as the grounds host a number of events throughout the year.

This continues for many many miles and although rather bumpy in places it is, as you would expect, really flat. Surprisingly hard going along the less than smooth more rural parts of the canal.

Of all the buildings in Culworth the Church is by far the oldest.  Standing in the middle of the village for nearly 1000 years we all have a duty as villagers to maintain and preserve it for future generations, in the same way people from Culworth have always done.

The Danvers family held the manor of Culworth from 1643, when Samuel Danvers (1611–1683) was created a baronet. The Danvers Baronetcy became extinct with the death of Sir Michael Danvers, 5th Baronet, in 1776. Marble monuments to the Danvers family inside the church of St. Mary the Virgin were erected in 1790. The school dates back to 1789 when Merial D’Anvers, the spinster daughter of a local prominent land-owning family, commissioned the building of the original school house which is still in use today. Culworth Forge on the Green operated for over 500 years before closing a few years ago, to be replaced by Forge2, a gallery exhibiting the work of local artists.

The Village may have originated as a Danish settlement - Thorpe is an Old Norse name for a village. (Mandeville is a corruption of Amundeville – Richard de Amundeville was lord of the manor during the thirteenth century).

The Name The story of a village starts with its name.  Chipping Warden is the village with a market and a hill from which a watch may be kept.  In the Domesday book (1086) Warden is found as Waredon.  The word is compounded from ‘weard’ meaning to watch and ‘dun’ a hill.  The hill referred to is Warden Hill which lies to the East of the village. ‘Chipping’ comes from the Old English verb ‘ceapan’, meaning to buy, and refers to the market which was possibly first held here in Saxon times. The Romans At Chipping Warden Black Grounds, and in a field called the Cauldwells, lived a Roman land proprietor in his villa.  The foundations of the villa were discovered about a hundred years ago, also fragments of Samion and Castor pottery used in the house.  The house included a bathroom 36ft long and 10ft wide which has been excavated, a feature which would not again figure in the homes of the village for several hundreds of years.  Roman coins have been found in the locality dating from A.D. 250-390. The Domesday Survey (1086) William 1, having defeated the English Army under Harold of Hastings, proceeded to deprive the English Lords of their lands bestowing them to Norman Knights.  In 1086 at the time of the Domesday Survey the lands in Chipping Warden which had been previously held by a Saxon named Tosti, were in possession of Cuy de Reinbuedcurt, who held them directly from the King.  At Edgcote, lands which in former times had been held by a Saxon thane named Burred, were handed over to a lord named Walchelin, who held them from the Bishop of Coutanes in Normandy. The market of the village A great distinction of Chipping Warden during the Middle Ages was the possession of a market. By the reign of Henry III, the market was highly successful, for in 1227 the King, at the request of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, in whose diocese Banbury lay, withdrew the privilege of the market as it was proving an important rival to the Banbury one. In 1238 the ‘Manor’ of the village had passed to Girard de Furnivall who obtained from the king once more the right to hold a market in the village on a Tuesday. The market was still active in 1362 as an action was taken against the Vicar of Blakesley for disturbing the market – the exact nature of which is not disclosed.  However there is no more mention on the market in history after that time, not even the date on which it ceased to be held, but the base of the Market Cross may still be seen near the Church. The World Wars The village like every English village, made its tragic contribution to the success of the Wars with the lives of some of its men.  The stones in the Church bear testimony to this loss. In the Second World War the aerodrome was built, which enlivened the village with the sound of aircraft and crew.  RAF Chipping Warden opened in 1941 as a Bomber Command Operational Training Unit.  On 1 December 1942 a Vickers Wellington bomber crashed on take off, hitting the control tower and hangars, killing two people and causing many other casualties.  The memorial on the Edgcote House drive (pictured above) commemorates the crew of a Wellington Bomber that crashed there on the 18 April 1945.