Sibbertoft

Sibbertoft
Berkeley Street
Sibbertoft  Sibbertoft shown within Northamptonshire
Population	343
OS grid reference	SP6882
District	Daventry
Shire county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Market Harborough
Postcode district	LE16
Dialling code	01858
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Kettering
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Coordinates: 52°26′10″N 0°59′38″W / 52.4362°N 0.9938°W

Sibbertoft is a village and civil parish in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 343 people.^[1]

Facilities in the village include a pub, church, recreation ground and the Sibbertoft Reading Room which is in effect the village hall.^[2]

Notable residents

• Miles Joseph Berkeley, cryptogamist, clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology, served as a clergyman to the parish of Sibbertoft.

Notable buildings and monuments

The Historic England website contains details of the listed buildings in the parish of Sibbertoft. All of them are Grade II apart from St Helen's Church, which is Grade II*.^[3]

The listed buildings are:

• St Helen's Church, Church Street
• Two chest tombs and a pair of headstones in the churchyard
• The Springs, 7 Berkeley Street
• The Old School, Church Street, 1846 by Edmund Francis Law^[4]
• 41 Welland Rise, Church Street
• The Springs, 7 Berkeley Street, The High Street

There are also two scheduled monuments in the parish:

• Nobold – a medieval settlement 440 metres east of Lowe Farm
• Sibbertoft motte and bailey castle

References

1. Office for National Statistics: Sibbertoft CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 19 November 2009
2. Sibbertoft Reading Room Retrieved 10 April 2011
3. "Historic England – The List". Retrieved 2015-09-29.
4. Pevsner, Northamptonshire, Addenda p530

External links

• Map sources for Sibbertoft