Lower Boddington

Lower Boddington
Lower Boddington
 Lower Boddington shown within Northamptonshire
OS grid referenceSP4852
Civil parishBoddington
DistrictSouth Northamptonshire
Shire countyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Daventry
Postcode district NN11
Dialling code 01327
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentDaventry
List of places
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England
Northamptonshire

Coordinates: 52°10′05″N 1°17′56″W / 52.168°N 1.299°W / 52.168; -1.299

Lower Boddington is a village about 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Daventry in Northamptonshire. Lower Boddington is the smaller of the two villages in Boddington civil parish, most of whose facilities are located in Upper Boddington.

Children from Lower Boddington are most likely to attend a primary school in Aston le Walls, Chipping Warden, Leamington Spa or Upper Boddington. Teenagers are likely to attend Chenderit School or Blesséd George Napier RC School in nearby Banbury.

Lower Boddington has a public house, the Carpenters Arms,[1] owned by the Hook Norton Brewery.[2]

HS2

From the governments new plans to build a second high speed railway going from Birmingham to London, Lower Boddington is one of the villages to complain as of the noise pollution it would create and the loss in the homes cost. Many protests have taken place from this including many towns and villages along the link.

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