page_title: Kingsthorpe
section_title: Economic and social history
hierarchical_section_title: Kingsthorpe / Economic and social history
caption_attribution_description: English: Northampton Corporation trams outside the Cock Hotel, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, circa 1905
context_page_description: Kingsthorpe is a northern suburb of the county town of Northampton, England. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the district council ward as 4,477.
  For centuries Kingsthorpe was a rural village, with a parish of 1,020 acres. Late in the 19th century it was made a civil parish. But Northampton Municipal Borough absorbed most of the parish in 1900 and the remainder in 1931.
context_section_description: The Dallington Iron Ore Co Ltd briefly quarried iron ore north of the village. The quarry was between what is now the A5199 and the then railway to Market Harborough (now disused). The quarry operated from 1859 to 1861 or slightly longer. The ore was taken away by rail. The site of the quarry is now covered by housing.
  A Northampton Corporation Tramways route served Kingsthorpe until the network was closed at the end of 1934.
  Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple in the Miss Marple BBC television series, was born in the village. Actress Judy Carne's parents were greengrocers in the village. Lesley Joseph, who played Dorien Green in the television comedy series Birds of a Feather, was raised here and lived in the suburb until the age of 18.  One of the campuses of the University of Northampton, the Park Campus, used to be in Kingsthorpe until the University of Northampton relocated to the Waterside Campus.
caption: Northampton Corporation trams in Kingsthorpe in about 1905
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