Lamport Hall, Northampton, England

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

Gardens and pleasure grounds of later 17th to early 20th-century date, and 19th-century park associated with a country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Lamport Hall lies on the A508, midway between Northampton and Market Harborough. The Hall lies south of All Hallows' church, on the south side of Lamport High Street (the B567) 400 metres east of the A508. Hall and village lie in the eastern part of the parish on a hill, with good views over the surrounding countryside. The registered area (around 33 hectares) is bounded to the west by the A508, to the north by the B567, and to the north-east by a minor road off the latter. To the south the boundary follows field edges, reflecting the park's post-enclosure date.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 3 (30 April 1898), pp 518-20; 49 (4 June 1921), pp 672-9; 112 (26 September 1952), pp 932-5; (10 October 1952), pp 1106-9; 128 (10 November 1960), pp 1104-7; (17 November 1960), pp 1164-7

The Victoria History of the County of Northamptonshire 4, (1937), pp 195-9

N Marlow (translator), The Diary of Thomas Isham of Lamport (1658-81) kept ... 1671 to 1673 (1971)

N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (1973), pp 284-9

J Anthony, The Gardens of Britain 6, (1979), pp 107-10

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Inventories: Northamptonshire 3, (1981), pp 116-19

Lamport Hall Past and Present, guidebook, (Lamport Hall Trust 1985)

B A Bailey (editor), Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Drawings of Peter Tillemans and Others, Northants Record Society 39, (1996), p 107

J Heward and R Taylor, The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, (RCHM(E) 1996), pp 256-63

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1901
 

Description written: 1998

Edited: January 2000