Dallington is a former village about northwest of the centre of
Northampton, the county town of
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by
two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
, England. Dallington is now a suburb of Northampton. At the 2011 census the population was listed in the Spencer ward of Northampton Council.
The villages name means 'farm/settlement connected with Daegel'.
The
Church of England parish church of
Saint Mary the Virgin
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
dates from 1207 and is a Grade II*
listed building
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. It is near the site of a previous
Saxon church.
Dallington Hall on Dallington Park Road is a Grade II* listed house built in 1720-30 for Sir
Joseph Jekyll
Sir Joseph Jekyll (166319 August 1738), of Westminster, was a British barrister, judge and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 40 years from 1697 to 1738. He became Master of the Rolls in 1717.
Early lif ...
,
Master of the Rolls
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in place of the original manor house owned by the Rainsford family (see
Richard Raynsford
Sir Richard Rainsford SL (1605–1680) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1663. He became Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Career
Rainsford was the second son of Robert Raynsford of Stavert ...
). It was later owned by
Earl Spencer before becoming a hospital known as the Margaret Spencer Home of Rest. It has now been divided into private apartments.
There was a short lived attempt to quarry iron ore in the parish in the early 1860s. The quarry ceased operation by 1863. It was on the west side of the railway to the north of Northampton Station and the site is now built over or covered by railway sidings. It had a horse -worked tramway to take the ore to the railway.
Dallington is north-east of
Duston
Duston is a suburb of Northampton and a civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.
History
Archaeological remains found in the area suggest that Duston has roots in Prehistoric and Roman settlements. However, development in the area h ...
, south of Kings Heath and north-west of
St James End.
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Areas of Northampton
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