Adstone

{{Infobox UK place|

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.1586|-1.1293|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Adstone

| population = 65

| population_ref = (2001 census)
89 (2010 est.){{Cite book | author=SNC| title=South Northamptonshire Council Year Book 2010-2011| year=2010 | location=Towcester| pages=39}}

| static_image_name = All Saints', Adstone - geograph.org.uk - 143072.jpg

| static_image_caption = All Saints Church

| unitary_england = West Northamptonshire

| lieutenancy_england = Northamptonshire

| region = East Midlands

| civil_parish = Adstone

| constituency_westminster = Daventry

| postcode_district = NN12

| postcode_area = NN

| post_town = TOWCESTER

| dial_code = 01327

| os_grid_reference = SP595515

| london_distance =

}}

Adstone is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 152 Northampton & Milton Keynes (Buckingham & Daventry)|ISBN= 9780319231715 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}} The population at the 2001 census was 65. It remained than 100 at the 2011 census and was included in the civil parish of Tiffield. Adstone is situated approximately {{convert|6.5|mi|km|0}} south-southeast of Daventry and {{convert|6.5|mi|km|0}} west-northwest of Towcester. It was known as Atenestone in the Domesday Book.{{cite web|url=http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5951/adstone/|title=Open Doomsday: Adstone|publisher= Anna Powell-Smith|author =J.J.N. Palmer|website=opendomesday.org|access-date=31 January 2016}}

History

The villages name means 'Aettin's farm/settlement'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Adstone|title=Key to English Place-names}}

Adstone was a chapelry within the parish of Canons Ashby until 1866, when it was promoted to a parish.{{cite book|author = F. Youngs|title=Local Administrative Units: Northern England|location= London|publisher=Royal Historical Society|date= 1991|page= 294}} The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, is of Norman origin, ca. 13th century. It was heavily restored in both 1843, when the chancel was added and again in 1896.{{Cite book | author=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author2=Cherry, Bridget | title=The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire| year=1961 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=London and New Haven | isbn=978-0-300-09632-3 | pages=75–6}} Since 2006 the parish has formed part of the Lambfold benefice along with the parishes of Blakesley, Maidford, Litchborough and Farthingstone. The Manor House is late 17th century, the Old Vicarage dates to 1870 by Edmund Francis Law, the school to 1846 and the Methodist Chapel is 1849 in Georgian style.

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales in the 1870s described Adstone as follows:

{{blockquote|a chapelry in Ashby-Canons parish, Northampton; 5¾ miles SSW of Weedon r. station, and 6¾ WNW of Towcester. Post Town, Blakesley, under Towcester. Acres, 1,190. Real property, £2,281. Pop., 165. Houses, 36. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £130. Patrons, the Sons of Clergy Corporation. There is a Wesleyan chapel}}

The censuses showed that the population declined from 184 in 1871 to 80 in 1961 and 65 in 2001.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10262781/cube/TOT_POP |title= A Vision of Britain Through Time: Adstone |publisher=GB Historical GIS/University of Portsmouth| website=visionofbritain.co.uk|access-date=30 January 2016}}

References

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Category:Villages in Northamptonshire

Category:West Northamptonshire District

Category:Civil parishes in Northamptonshire