Fawsley, Daventry, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Landscape park, of mid-13th-century origins and little changed since the mid-18th century, with lakes and 16th-century lodge, and gardens associated with a country house. There is documented involvement by Lancelot Brown.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Fawsley Hall lies about 5 kilometres south of Daventry, 2 kilometres east along a minor road leading off the A361 Daventry to Banbury road. The minor road forms the eastern boundary of the site; otherwise the boundary follows field edges and, to the north, the northern boundary of Badby Wood. The Hall stands on a relatively low-lying spur, with the main parkland lying on rising ground to the north. The area here registered is around 330 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 24 (4 July 1908), pp 18-27

N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (1973), pp 214-16

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975)

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Inventories: Northamptonshire 3, (1981), pp 88-91

Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 6, (1991), pp 19-20

J Heward and R Taylor, The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, (RCHM(E) 1996), pp 211-22

Maps

Fawsley estate map, 1741 (Map 853), (Northants Record Office)

Archival items

Northamptonshire Heritage Sites and Monuments Record entries.
 

Description written: July 1998

Edited: January 2000