Arthingworth
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Arthingworth is a civil parish and village in the West Northamptonshire area of the county of Northamptonshire, England.<ref name="EX223">OS Explorer Map Map 223 - Northampton & Market Harborough (1:25 000) Template:ISBN</ref> The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 238.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The villages name probably means, 'enclosure connected with Earn(a)'.Earn referring to a river, suggesting the village was near a body of water. In the Domesday book the village appears as Erthingworde, at the time of the Domesday survey the village was owned by William the Conqueror. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Location and communications
The nearest towns are Market Harborough about Template:Convert north and Kettering Template:Convert east via the A14 road which connects the town to the M1, M6 and M11 motorways.
Between 1859 and 1960 the village was served by Kelmarsh railway station about 1 mile south-west of the village and running trains between Northampton in the south and Market Harborough in the north.
Administration
The village has its own Parish Council.<ref>Arthingworth Parish Council Template:Webarchive</ref>
Notable buildings
The Historic England website contains details of a total of eight listed buildings in the parish of Arthingworth, all of which are Grade II apart from St Andrew's Church, which is Grade II*.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They include:
- St Andrew's Church, Braybrooke Road<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Arthingworth Lodge, Kelmarsh Road<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Arthingworth Manor. This was left as a shell in 1967 revealing walls probably from an older house. A stable block remains, now converted to a house but incorporating the Manor House staircase.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Bosworth House<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Glebe House, Kelmarsh Road<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Hall Farmhouse, Oxendon Road<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>