Sywell is a village and

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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. At the time of the 2011 census, the population was 792. The name Sywell is thought to mean seven wells.

Facilities

The facilities found in the village include: *The church ( St Peter & St Paul) * Sywell Aerodrome, opened in 1928 and active during

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*Aviation Museum *The Horseshoe

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*Overstone

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Club *Overstone Solarium (

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) *The Overstone Manor (family pub) * Sywell Reservoir (redundant as a working reservoir and now a country park) *Overstone Park Cricket Club *Sywell CEVA Primary School * Drome Park home of Sywell F.C.

Other

The Ecton Lane part of the village is built just inside the walls of Overstone Hall; the estate wall is of fine quality and in village

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is said to be seven feet high, be seven miles long and took seven men seven years to build.

Pevsner on Sywell

Church - this has a short tower dating to the 13th century. The pretty stair projection found in the west side of the church is not medieval as it appears. Renovations dating from the 1870s have left the church with an odd feel. There is a stained glass window by

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dating from 1839, which is very fine. It uses heraldic glass dating from 1580. Sywell Hall - the hall has a long straight front with two small and one larger gable ends. The house appears to originally date from Elizabethan times. Village - many local houses were rebuilt by Lady Overstone in the 1860s - with the (old) school dating to 1861 and the rectory's rebuilding to 1862. The church's plate dates from 1816 and is the work of Patten. The airfield hosts an annual concert called "Music in the Ai

A combination of classical music and aviation.

Links with the village from the ''Dictionary of National Biography''

*Anthony Jenkinson, merchant, sea-captain, and traveller married Judith Mersh of Sywell in 1567. In 1578 he bought the village from his father in law and moved to the village. *Lewis Atterbury was appointed Rector (ecclesiastical), rector of the village in 1684. * William Lancaster (died 1717) - scholar; was married to a daughter of a Mr Wilmer from Sywell. * Admiral Sir Watkin Owen was the son of

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of Sywell Hall. *

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( Bishop of Exeter) was born at Sywell in 1853. *

William Tresham Sir William Tresham JP (1404 – 22 September 1450) was an English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Northamptonshire, the son of Thomas Tresham of Sywell, he went on to become a major landowner in the region. He was e ...

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(died 1450) was the eldest son of Thomas Tresham of Sywell. He was also the father of another speaker Thomas Tresham (died 1471).

References

*The Buildings of England - Northamptonshire. N Pevsner (Second edition). *Dictionary of National Biography

External links

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