Achurch | |
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The elaborate cover for the village well | |
Location within Northamptonshire | |
Population | 421 (2011) |
OS grid reference | TL021830 |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | PETERBOROUGH |
Postcode district | PE8 |
Police | Northamptonshire |
Fire | Northamptonshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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.