Hackleton

Hackleton is a village located in the south of the English shire county of Northamptonshire (Northants) in the district of South Northamptonshire, just north of Buckinghamshire. It isconvert|5|mi|km|0 south of Northampton town centre, and convert|2|mi|km|0 by road to the M1 London to Yorkshire motorway junction 15 and convert|11|mi|km|0 north of junction 14. London is convert|62|mi|km|0 south via junction 14 and convert|47|mi|km|0 southeast of Birmingham via junction 15. It lies on the busy B526 road (former A50) from Northampton to Newport Pagnell, between Horton and Wootton. The parish area is about 1,028 acres.Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name = Hackelton
latitude = 52.18879
longitude = -0.82295
civil_parish = Hackleton (with Piddington, Horton and Preston Deanery)
population = 1,568 (2001 Census) including associated villages
london_distance = convert|64|mi|km|0
shire_district = South Northamptonshire
shire_county = Northamptonshire
region = East Midlands
constituency_westminster = Northampton South
post_town = NORTHAMPTON
postcode_district = NN7
postcode_area = NN
dial_code = 01604
os_grid_reference = SP805550
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Demographics

The Parish Council area covers several surrounding villages. To compound the statistics, census information for the village of Preston Deanery is joined with Great Houghton and other areas. Precise statistics are, therefore difficult to state. The best that can be said is based on the 2001 censuscite web|title = UK census 2001 - data|url = http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=7&b=311642&c=Hackleton&d=16&g=473756&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1223619158664&enc=1&domainId=16
accessdate = 2008-10-10] . For Hackleton, Piddington and Horton combined, and together with the surrounding rural area sparesly populated, the data shows 1,568 residents, 756 male and 812 female, living in 606 dwellings.

Governance

The village has a [http://www.hackletonpc.org/ parish council] which also covers the nearby villages of Piddington, Preston Deanery and Horton as well as Hackleton.

Facilities

The village school is Hackleton CofE Primary School. The village also has Hackleton Carey Baptist Chapel, Dudley Winterbottom Memorial Hall, The White Hart Pub and Hackleton Stores, the local village shop. Hackleton also used to be home to the Easyrider, a specialist upholstery shop dealing with sheep skin and wool products. Other amenities include 'The Rec'; local recreational ground, practising grounds of local football team Hackleton Harriers. There is also the local war memorial, a butchers and a 'pocket' park, formerly the land boundary between Hackleton and Piddington.

Hackleton Carey Baptist Chapel was set up by William Carey [cite web |url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps045.shtml |title=Glimpses #45: William Carey's Amazing Mission |publisher=Christian History Institute| accessdate=2008-04-07] , the English Protestant missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions." Carey was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. Carey came to the village to complete an apprenticeship at The Jetty, the street opposing the where the Chapel is built. In Hackleton there is also Carey Road, a slip road off the Main Road, named after the local man.

The village of Piddington, home to the parish church and the Piddington Roman Villa, are nearby.

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