Arthingworth
village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK
Arthingworth is a civil parish and village in the West Northamptonshire area of the county of Northamptonshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 238.
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.
Location and communications
The nearest towns are Market Harborough about 4 miles (6.4 km) north and Kettering 9 miles (14.5 km) 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.
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*. They include:
St Andrew's Church, Braybrooke Road
Arthingworth Lodge, Kelmarsh Road
Arthingworth Manor. This was left as a shell in 1967 revealing walls probably from an older house.
The public source identifies “Arthingworth” as village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arthingworth, village and civil.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2458564. Authority coordinates are 52.426, -0.891. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1859, 1960 and 1967.
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This entry incorporates text from “Arthingworth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.