Dallington Hall 1720-2020
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Dallington Hall, sometimes known as Court, or House, has been a private house, a boarding school, a convalescent home, and divided into eleven apartments.
Initially this project was intended to be a history of the house, three hundred years old in 2020, but in the way of these things it expanded to cover the village and the manor too.
As such a small village it has had a surprising amount of national importance through the owners of the manor.
For much of the time, even before this house was built, the manor of Dallington was associated with parliamentarians.
This short booklet includes the following topics:-
Dallington Village and Northampton
Church - St Mary the Virgin
Hall - Description, Gardens, Park
Ownership including Raynsfords and Jekylls
Residents - School, Whitworths, Spencers, Hospitals
Conservation, Conversion
Marina Oliver
Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion. Getting published, though, is something really special, and having been so fortunate myself I now try to help aspiring writers by handing on tips it took me years to work out. I've published over 60 titles, including four in the How To Books' Successful Writing Series, and Writing Historical Fiction for Studymates.I have judged short story competitions, been a final judge for the Harry Bowling Prize and was an adviser to the 3rd edition of Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers 1994. If you want to find out more about your favourite authors, consult this book. I once wrote an article on writing romantic fiction for the BBC's web page, for Valentine's day.I have given talks and workshops for the Arts Council and at most of the major Writing Conferences, and helped establish the Romantic Novelists' Association's annual conference. I was Chairman of the RNA 1991-3, ran their New Writers' Scheme and edited their newsletter. I am now a Vice-President.As well as writing I have edited books for Transita, featuring women 'of a certain age', and for Choc Lit where gorgeous heros are the norm.I was asked to write A Century of Achievement, a 290 page history of my old school, Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, and commissioned to write a book on Castles and Corvedale to accompany a new circular walk in the area.Most of my Regencies written under the pseudonym Sally James are now published in ebook format as well as many others of my out of print novels which my husband is putting into ebook format. Our daughter Debbie is helping with designing the covers. For details of all my books and my many pseudonyms see my website.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very interesting with lots of unanswered questions and room for thought. Thank you for your diligence.
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Dallington Hall 1720-2020 - Marina Oliver
1DALLINGTON HALL
1720–2020
BY
MARINA OLIVER
Dallington Hall 1720-2020
Copyright © 2020 Marina Oliver
The moral right of the author has been asserted
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form, including digital and electronic or mechanical, without the prior written consent of the Publisher, except for brief quotes for use in reviews.
Published by Marina Oliver
See details of other books by Marina Oliver at
www.marina-oliver.net
www.sally-james.net
Dedicated to the hundreds of people who have lived or worked at Dallington Hall
FOREWORD
I have to thank the many people who helped in this project.
My husband Chris found maps.
My daughter Jackie Stopyra combed through newspaper archives.
My daughter Debbie guided me through census records on Ancestry.co.uk
Mervyn Bridges gave me documents and pictures.
I was also much indebted to his booklet on the church.
Marjorie Cook lent me documents relating to the Almshouses.
Peter Bateman gave me a guided tour of the Tennis Club.
Christine Musson's booklet on the village houses was invaluable.
Helen Clarke gave me photographs.
Gaynor Crute helped explore Record Office documents.
The Golf Club at Great Harrowden Hall lent me a book on the house's history, including the Sharpe School.
Note: this ebook is the text of the print-on-demand book, without the illustrations.
INTRODUCTION
Dallington Hall, sometimes known as Court, or House, has been a private house, a boarding school, a convalescent home, and divided into eleven apartments. For much of the time, even before this house was built, the manor of Dallington was associated with parliamentarians.
Initially this project was intended to be a history of the house, three hundred years old in 2020, but in the way of these things it expanded to cover the village and the manor too. As such a small village it has had a surprising amount of national importance through the owners of the manor.
There are two villages named Dallington. The other is in East Sussex, and also a small place. The Oxford Names Dictionary refers to the Sussex one as 'an estate associated with a man called Dalla', and cites it as Old English, but there is no entry for Dalla in either the surname or first name sections, or for us specifically in the place names.
In this sort of research there are inevitably many unanswered questions, so there are many 'possiblys' and 'probablys', speculation about the most likely but unproven answers.
NORTHAMPTON AND DALLINGTON
Dallington, a mile and a half to the west of Northampton, is now a part of the county town but always had close links to it, especially as the town spread westwards. The