Achurch

Achurch
The elaborate cover for the village well
Achurch is located in Northamptonshire
Achurch
Achurch
Location within Northamptonshire
Population421 (2011)
OS grid referenceTL021830
Civil parish
  • Thorpe Achurch
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPETERBOROUGH
Postcode districtPE8
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
List of places
UK
England
Northamptonshire
52°26′08″N 0°29′58″W / 52.43545°N 0.49957°W / 52.43545; -0.49957

Achurch (formerly Asenciran sometimes referred to as Thorpe Achurch) is a village in the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch, in North Northamptonshire, England. Situated on a small rise above the River Nene, 5 miles South of the market town of Oundle, the population of the civil parish of Thorpe Achurch at the 2011 census was 421.[1]

The parish includes the Grade I listed property Lilford Hall and the Grade II* listed Church of St. John the Baptist, an early and late 13th-century Anglican church restored and enlarged by architect William Slater in 1862.

  1. ^ "Civil Parishg population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 June 2016.