East Haddon

East Haddon is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is located approximately midway between the towns of Northampton and Daventry, with each town being around 8 miles to the east and west of the village respectively. East Haddon is close to Althorp, the stately home and estate of the Spencer family, and surrounded by the villages of Ravensthorpe to the north, Holdenby to the east, Great Brington to the south, and Long Buckby to the west. The village was first mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Edonne, possibly meaning "heather-covered hill"; the prefix East was added in later years to distinguish it from the nearby village of West Haddon. The oldest building in the village is St Mary's Church, parts of which date from the 12th century. East Haddon Hall was built in the 18th century. The village has many thatched cottages built in the local Northampton Sand ironstone. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 643 people, down from 651 at the 2001 census.