page_title: Milton Malsor
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Milton Malsor / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaques in Milton Malsor UK. This image represents an Open Plaques entry&#160;#28279. This image represents an Open Plaques entry&#160;#28280.
context_page_description: Milton Malsor is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 761. It is 4 miles south of Northampton town centre, 45 miles south-east of Birmingham, and 66 miles north of central London; junction 15 of the M1 motorway is 2 miles east by road. The area of the Milton Malsor civil parish is about 1,650 acres, stretching from north of the M1 motorway between junctions 15 and 15A, south to the West Coast Main Line, east to the A508 and A45 roads, and west to the A43 road.
context_section_description: Much of the village is in a conservation area which is shown on a map on the Parish Council website and has many traditional Northamptonshire stone cottages, a large number of which have thatched or pantiled roofs. There are over 30 listed buildings in the village, most in the conservation area. Particular buildings of note, mostly listed by their street locations, are as follows:
  Rectory Lane, formerly Pluck's Lane
  Milton House (early 18th century) and Manor Cottage (1777) attached on the east side, Grade II listed. The house has a doorway with Tuscan columns
  Mortimers, Grade II listed, early 18th century earlier than Milton House, which was named after a family who lived there and originally owned by the Hospital of St John at the bottom of Bridge Street in Northampton. The house and its grounds were auctioned on 17 March 2011 fetching a total of £1,115,000, but with the house requiring substantial refurbishment. According to the local paper the house was once lived-in by Revd Samuel Wathen Wigg, a local clergyman and curate of St. James Church in Northampton the founder of Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club. Prior to the 2011 sale, the house was previously sold in 1921, and was lived in by the Alexander family, then by Margaret Alexander, granddaughter of Wigg.
  Milton Malsor Manor, Grade II listed, 16th century, James Harrington, the author of the controversial book "The Commonwealth of Oceana", published 1656, was a former occupant and the building has a blue plaque in recognition, installed on 4 October 2008.
  Dovecote and Stable with coach house doors, Milton Malsor Manor, grade two listed. 18th-century with older origins and 20th-century alterations.
  The Old Rectory, now used as architects offices. Grade two listed, 18th-century with older origins.
  Collingtree Road
  Church of the Holy Cross, Church of England, 12th-century origins but most late 13th- to mid-14th-century. The church has a crenellated tower, and later battlements and pinnacles. There are monuments to Mrs Sapcotes Harington, d. 1619, and Richard Dodwell, d. 1726
  The Grange
  Green Street
  Baptist Chapel, 1827, founded by Thomas Marriott (b. Denton 1789 d. Milton 14 June 1876) and buried in the churchyard of the chapel.
  The Manse (next to the chapel), residence of Marriott as Pastor
  Milton Parochial Primary School
  Welstead Farm House
  The Old Bakehouse
  The Compass Public House
  Malzor Lane
  Milton Manor House not to be confused with The Manor in Rectory Lane. Nick Raynsford, Labour Party MP for Greenwich was brought up here. The house has a notable 17th-century staircase with acanthus scrolls similar to work at Lamport Hall and Castle Ashby
  High Street
  Old Primitive Methodist Chapel, 1865, now used as a private residence
  War Memorial, ca.1920 on the Village green
  Milton Grove, now Grove House, former residence of Thomas Marriott
  Stockwell Farm House, ca.1653
  Village Pound marked with a plaque stating in existence since at least 1686
  Towcester Road
  The Greyhound Public House and Restaurant
  The former Hope Brewery, now converted to offices. In 1892 Phipps Northampton Brewery Company acquired the business from East Brothers. In 1906 NBC it was closed moving production to Northampton, Bridge Street, now the site of the Carlsberg brewery
  The Counties Crematorium, erroneously referred to as being in Milton, is now actually outside the parish about a mile north of the village and north of the M1 in West Hunsbury, Northampton with the Northampton borough postcode NN4 9RN
  Notes
  There are good views from the public footpath across the field known as "The Leys" in Rectory Lane.
  Private property - view of rear garden shown with permission
  Private property - not open to the public
  Public footpaths in the village are clearly marked by green fingerposts. Dog fouling throughout the parish, including footpaths, is strictly prohibited with heavy fines for infringement.
caption: Plaques at the Manor House in Rectory Lane where James Harrington, author of Oceana lived and the Baptist Chapel in Green Street founded 1827.
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