Wellingborough Extensive Urban Survey

approximate location of many tenements in the Irthlingborough manor (Leicester fee) and former Crowland manor can also be established. None of the Irthlingborough manor tenements lie in the Market Quarter of the town, while the majority (16) lie in the Upper End Quarter, with another smaller group in the East End Quarter in Skitterdine and Hog Hill. None of the Earl of Warwick’s Crowland manor tenements lie in the Upper End Quarter, while in the Hatton manor, which represents primarily the remainder of the Crowland manor, few tenements lie in the Upper End Quarter and almost none in the Buckwell End and Broad Green areas. Hence Buckwell End and Broad Green would appear to be the focus of the manor held by the Earl of Leicester in the 12th century. Such locations on clayland would however be unusual locations for early settlement and so may have originated as greens serving grazing function around which settlement later gravitated in the late Saxon or medieval period.

Court Roll, 21 Oct.1467-8, WRO, CR 1886/688713 14