Shutlanger

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Shutlanger is a small village and civil parish in south Northamptonshire, England. The village is Script error: No such module "convert". east of Towcester and Script error: No such module "convert". south of Northampton.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The village's name means 'Shuttle sloping-wood', maybe alluding to where shuttles, bolts or bars were made or acquired.[1]

In 1881 Shutlanger parish's total population was 403. In 1901 it was 339 and by 1971 it had dropped to 233.[2] At the time of the 2001 census, it was 270 people,[3] increasing to 290 at the 2011 census.[4]

There was a great medieval house here called the Monastery, but it was just a house and not a monastery in the normal sense.[5] The village is close to Stoke Park Pavilions and originally part of the Stoke Park estate with the first Palladian-style English country house. The building is a Grade I listed Building.[6] Famous residents includes ancestors of the Richardson gang.

Shutlanger has its own Parish Council and belongs to the church grouping with Stoke Bruerne and Grafton Regis.[7] The village has a pub (named The Plough) and a village hall. The nearest primary school and church are at Stoke Bruerne one mile east of Shutlanger.

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