West Haddon

Coordinates: 52°20′24″N 1°04′37″W / 52.340°N 1.077°W / 52.340; -1.077

West Haddon
West Haddon  West Haddon shown within Northamptonshire
Population	1,200  (2001 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SP629717
- London	81 kilometres (50 mi)
Parish	West Haddon
District	Daventry
Shire county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORTHAMPTON
Postcode district	NN6 7
Dialling code	01788
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Daventry
List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire

West Haddon is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England.

Location

West Haddon is close to junction 18 of the M1 motorway. The A428 road between Crick and Northampton ran through the middle of the village until a bypass was built in December 2005. The bypass, around the northern edge of the village, was officially opened on Tuesday 13 December 2005. The village is also on the former route of the B4036, now an unclassified road, which connects Market Harborough to the A5 trunk road.

Buildings

The village has two churches: All Saints (Church of England), and a Baptist church.

Internet

In October 2003, a group of technology experts from the village and the neighbouring village of Winwick grouped together to provide wireless internet for both villages, as British Telecom refused to upgrade the West Haddon exchange (which serves both villages) to support broadband internet. A non-profit company called "West Haddon & Winwick Community Broadband, Ltd." was formed, and hardware installed in key locations around the two villages. The system ran successfully until October 2004 when it was decommissioned in favour of the newly-enabled BT broadband. A number of initiatives were tried on the system, including a community FTP server and a community intranet website. The system was featured in local newspapers, and was one of only a few such systems to be implemented in England.

Sport

The village has many provisions for sport, with two large playing fields, used for men's football, at the north end of the village, a small children's play area, a tennis court, a petanque area, a cricket pitch with pavilion and car park, and links to numerous countryside paths, such as the Jurassic Way. In the middle of the village there is a bowls lawn. West Haddon has many active sports clubs, such as the tennis club, several youth football teams, a cricket team, a bowls club a petanque club and a table tennis club.

School

The village's primary school is "West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School". The current headteacher (June 2007) is Mr J. Nairn. It has a capacity for just over 100 pupils, which are drawn from West Haddon and a few surrounding villages.

Famous residents

• Marica Williams - Baroness Falkender of West Haddon, former Private Secretary to Harold Wilson, Prime Minister.
• Keith Withnall, winner of the Simpson Science Prize (1972)

References

External links

• The village's website

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