Kingsthorpe

Kingsthorpe
St John the Baptist church from the village green
Kingsthorpe is located in Northamptonshire
Kingsthorpe
Kingsthorpe
Location within Northamptonshire
Population4,477 (Ward, 2011)
OS grid referenceSP7463
• London70 miles (113 km)
Civil parish
  • Kingsthorpe
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNorthampton
Postcode districtNN2
Dialling code01604
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
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52°15′45″N 0°54′0″W / 52.26250°N 0.90000°W / 52.26250; -0.90000

Kingsthorpe is a suburb and civil parish of Northampton, England. It is situated to the north of Northampton town centre and is served by the A508 and A5199 roads which join at Kingsthorpe's centre. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the district council ward as 4,477.[1]

For centuries, Kingsthorpe was a rural village, with a parish of 1,020 acres (410 ha) and history dating back to the 9th century. In the 19th century, it was made a civil parish.[2] Most of the parish was absorbed into the borough of Northampton in 1900; the remainder of it followed in 1931.[3] Kingsthorpe continued to grow into the 20th century as residential development moved further northwards and either side of the A508 and A5199 roads.

Kingsthorpe is now a large residential area of Northampton which is made up of several neighbourhoods that surround its central shopping front. In 2020, Kingsthorpe Parish Council was formed.[4]

  1. ^ "Kingshorpe ward population". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Kingsthorpe". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. ^ Salzman 1937, pp. 81–88.
  4. ^ "New councils update". Northampton Town Council. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.