Nobottle
| Nobottle | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Townsend Farm, Nobottle | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP672630 |
| Location: | 52°15’43"N, 1°-0’57"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Northampton |
| Postcode: | NN7 |
| Dialling code: | 01604 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
Nobottle is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, within the hundred of Nobottle Grove, to which it gives its name. The population is included in the civil parish of Brington. It borders the Althorp estate, which owns much of the property. Nobottle used to have a 600yd rifle range (the only one in Northamptonshire). The Midshires Way long-distance footpath passes through Nobottle. A Roman building was excavated here in 1927-9 and a hoard of 814 coins found, spanning several hundred years, but mostly of the late 4th century.[1]
The hamlet's name means 'New building'. Nobottle is in Brington parish.[2]
With only 13 houses, about half a mile long, Nobottle is one of the smallest hamlets in the country. However, Nobottle gave its name to a Saxon hundred, which at the time of Domesday Book (1086) was the location of the hundred court.[3] In 1849 the Nobottle Hundred comprised 18 parishes, with 9,000 inhabitants, though the hamlet itself then only had 99 inhabitants.[4]
Nobottle is a place name in the Shire in the north-west corner of the map on the front endpapers of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, although it is not known if the author borrowed the unusual name from the Northamptonshire hamlet; the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey takes it that he did.[5]
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Nobottle) |
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1961) The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire.
- ↑ "Nobottle Grove Hundred". University of Nottingham. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Nobottle%20Grove%20Hundred.
- ↑ Open Domesday Online: Nobottle Hundred
- ↑ Whellan, Directory of Northamptonshire, 1849.
- ↑ Shippey, Tom (2005). The Road to Middle-Earth (Third ed.). Grafton (HarperCollins). pp. 115–118. ISBN 978-0261102750.
