page_title: Sulgrave
section_title: Economic and social history
hierarchical_section_title: Sulgrave / Economic and social history
caption_attribution_description: English: Former windmill, Sulgrave, Northamptonshire; now a private house
context_page_description: Sulgrave is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England, about 5 miles north of Brackley. The village is just south of a stream that rises in the parish and flows east to join the River Tove, a tributary of the Great Ouse.
context_section_description: The village has an unusual layout, with two streets (Magpie Road/Manor Road and Little Street) running parallel roughly and joined in a figure of eight. In three places there are traces of former medieval or post-medieval buildings. At the southwest corner of the village, south of the church, are traces of what may have been houses but are more likely to have been part of the manor complex based around the ringwork. Behind houses on the northwest side of the village are low banks and shallow ditches that suggest closes larger than the current gardens. In the northeast part of the village, on the south side of Manor Road, are traces of house platforms and earth banks that surrounded their closes.
  About ¹⁄₂-mile (800 m) southeast of the village is a pillow mound about 40 feet (12 m) long, 23 feet (7 m) wide and only 10 inches (0.25 m) high, and bounded by a ditch 6 ¹⁄₂ feet (2 m) wide. It is the remains of an artificial warren for farming rabbits, which the Normans introduced to Britain from mainland Europe.
  Traces of traditional ridge and furrow ploughing survive in much of the parish, and particularly south-east of the village. They are evidence of the open field system of farming that prevailed in the parish until 1767, when Parliament passed the Inclosure Act for Sulgrave.
  John and Mary Hodges founded Sulgrave school in the early 18th century as a charity school for poor boys of the parish. The school building, at the corner of Magpie Road and Stockwell Lane, is a stone building which according to its date stone was completed in 1720. It was probably remodelled in the 19th century. It is now the village hall.
  A water mill on the stream just north of the village was built in the 18th century and enlarged in the 19th century. In 1788 the miller was a John Brockliss, who ordered machinery from Boulton and Watt. The mill is now a private house but is said to retain an iron mill-wheel made in about 1840. The mill-pond survives.
  There was a tower mill about 600 yards (550 m) northwest of the village. By the 1970s it was derelict but the tower has since been restored as part of a private house.
  The parish stocks survive. They are on The Green, at the junction of Magpie Road and Park Lane, and are probably 19th century.
caption: Former tower mill, now a private house
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