Nassington
village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Nassington is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. The village is on the River Nene and the border with Cambridgeshire, around 8 miles (13 km) west of Peterborough. At the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 867, an increase from 827 at the 2011 Census, and 670 at the 2001 census.
The village's name means 'Promontory place farm/settlement'.
The village has existed since at least Anglo-Saxon times, for an Anglo-Saxon hall was taken over by the Viking king, Cnut the Great, as one of his royal halls. Cnut is known to have visited after 1017, with his court including Aethelric the bishop of Dorchester on Thames. In 1107 Henry I gave the hall and land to the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Bloet, to endow a prebend.
The village and manor were featured in episode 117, King Cnut's Manor of Time Team (aired 7 March 2004).
The manor is now a private home, but the Prebendal Manor and Tithe Barn Museum, and gardens, are open to the paying public on some days. The gardens only contain plants introduced prior to 1485.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nassington” is village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nassington, village and civil, not as a finished interpretation.
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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 May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2782923. VIAF identifies the subject as 158242231. The Library of Congress control number is n00110632. Authority coordinates are 52.556, -0.431. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2011, 2001 and 1017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nassington” 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.