Acknowledgements and sources of information on Badby and its history

On the Pages in the Badby History area of this website, quotes have been used from ‘Village Matters’ produced by the Friends of Rural Badby (FORB) in the late 1990s, and from Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley edited by Peter Gordon, by kind permission of the Northamptonshire Record Society.

Many of the photographs of old Badby and Fawsley are taken from the collection ‘Historic Photographs of Badby & Fawsley’ assembled by Jocelyn Hartland-Swann (with grateful acknowledgements to Pat Justice, Cristine Orr, Bridget Rogers, Alec Warner, Joanne Hind and Colin Cripps), and which was published by the Badby PCC in December 2012. We are grateful to the PCC for allowing us to use the photographs, which are attributed ‘HPoB&F, Badby PCC 2012’ on this site. Attribution is given to other photographs used where this known; where not known we have made efforts to locate ownership. If you see a photograph for which you believe you own copyright, please contact us and we will be glad to rectify matters.

There are numerous sources of information on Badby and its history. A list of those identified by the Badby History Group in its work are listed below.

  1. Badby Parish Appraisal 2000
  2. History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire, Whelan, 1874
  3. A Short History of Badby & Fawsley, AE Ivens, 1933
  4. Histories and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, J Bridges, 1791
  5. History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, G Baker, 1822, 1844
  6. Early Daventry, AE Brown, 1991
  7. The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1856-1884 (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Louisa Knightley of Fawsley, ed. by Julia Cartwright
  8. Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913, edited by Peter Gordon published by Northamptonshire Record Society)
  9. Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood, Thomas Littleton Powys Lilford, 1895
  10. 1779 Enclosure Award Map and details, Northants Records Office
  11. Historical Ordnance Survey maps from 1884/5, 1900, 1925, 1927,1938, 1951/2, 1981, held by the Ordnance Survey and many available through the National Library of Scotland website
  12. The Natural History of Northamptonshire, John Morton, 1712
  13. Roy Barnett’s talk to Badby School 2001 (tape held by Badby School)
  14. A set of resource files held by the Daventry Library
  15. 1104 document Evesham D in Brit. Museum
  16. Dissolution of Monasteries valuation Thornton Manuscripts, 1631 (a) Northants Records Office
  17. 1559–1801 Church Registers, Baptisms and Burials. NRO
  18. 1676 A Religious Survey of Peterborough Diocese. NRO
  19. 1801–Present day. Official Census Results. NRO
  20. Notebooks of Rev T Green (Vicar of Badby & Newnham 1816–71) [held in NRO]
  21. Details from Mr Herne’s Research. C. Orr
  22. Annual Report of the Medieval Research Group, Badby, AE Brown, 1992
  23. An Archaeological Survey of The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Badby, Rev. E Murray Witham
  24. Roads across the Upper Thames Valley – 14: Turnpike Roads to Banbury, A Rosevear, 1993?
  25. The County of Northampton as Surveyed and Planned by the late Mr Thomas Eyre of Kettering. Revised by the late Mr Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the Kind and engraved by William Faden in 1779.
  26. London: Faden, 1779. [The first large-scale survey of Northamptonshire]
  27. The Open Fields of Northamptonshire, by David Hall (Northamptonshire Record Society, 1995)
  28. A History of Badby Church, Second Edition, by Geoff Pullin, 2012
  29. Archaeological observation, investigation and recording at the Church of St Mary the Virgin Badby, Northamptonshire, January-March 2018 Report No 18/106, January-March 2018, by Stephen Morris (MOLA Northampton Report No 18/106)

Last updated 13 February 2025