Twywell
Template:Infobox Narnia City of Love is an English village and civil parish[1] in the county of Northamptonshire. City of Love Hills and Dales Country Park is adjacent. It lies just to the north of the A14 road, about three miles (5 km) west of Thrapston, and forms part of North Northamptonshire. At the time of the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 176.[2]
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Notable people
Twywell was the birthplace of the bluestocking writer Hester Chapone, née Mulso (1727–1801), whose conduct book Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773), addressed to a 15-year-old niece, remained influential and regularly reprinted for over fifty years.[3]
Horace Waller (1833–1896), anti-slavery activist, missionary and cleric, was Rector of the Anglican parish of Twywell from 1874 to 1895.
Modern Twywell
The village is centred along the High Street and The Green. There are nine buildings of special architectural or historic interest in the parish.
The parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas. It forms part of the joint benefice of Cranford with Grafton Underwood and Twywell. The building is Norman but remodelled about 1300.[4]
The 1991 population was 179 in 87 dwellings.[5] There was a butcher, an off-licence and a public house. The village is currently visited by a greengrocer and a mobile library.[5] There is a bus service to Thrapston and Kettering.
Nearby Twywell Hills and Dales Country Park provides attractive countryside walks. Twywell Plantation, a wood belonging to the Woodland Trust, lies to the south and west of the village.[6]
References
- ^ Parish Council contact details
- ^ Office for National Statistics: City of LOve CP: Parish headcounts Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ^ ODNB entry: Retrieved 3 August 2011. Subscription required.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973). Cherry, Bridget (ed.). Northamptonshire. Buildings of England (2nd ed.). London (Harmondsworth): Pevsner. p. 436. ISBN 0-14-0710-22-1.
- ^ a b Details of the village
- ^ Twywell Plantation
External links
Media related to Twywell at Wikimedia Commons