County
Northamptonshire
29 places in the corpus · 4,690 dated entries · 1232–1484.
Places are grouped by historic county. The county of each place is taken from the printed indexes (which qualify a place as “co. Norfolk”) and the gazetteer, then normalised to the traditional shire.
Shaded: the historic county of Northamptonshire. Source: Historic County Borders Project (county-borders.co.uk), traditional counties. A proxy for the medieval shire, not a medieval reconstruction.
About these overlays & sources
These layers are real published datasets, not derived from the rolls, clipped to this county's neighbourhood for context. Each is external research data, reprojected but otherwise unmodified:
- Gough Map roads (c.1355–1360) — Oksanen, E. & Brookes, S. (2024) The Routes and Roads of the Gough Map: GIS Database. ADS. doi:10.5284/1124312.
- Navigable rivers (courses with direct and indirect evidence of medieval traffic) — Oksanen, E. (2019) Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348. ADS. doi:10.5284/1057497.
- Bridges to c.1250 — Brookes, S., Rye, E. & Oksanen, E. (2019) Bridges of Medieval England to c.1250. ADS. doi:10.5284/1053676. CC BY 4.0.
- Monastic houses (dissolution-era) — after MonasteryQuest, stainedglassattitudes.com.
- Terrain relief: Esri World Shaded Relief. The clean default base is CARTO (label-free), © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Activity over time
Where the court came from and went next (outside the county, click a bar)
From the seal's movement network: the places it was at immediately before arriving in this county (arrived from) and immediately after leaving it (departed to). Click a bar to open that place.
Places (29 in the county; the map shows those we could geolocate)
- Northampton 3,719
- Clipston 1,002
- Rockingham 568
- Peterborough 338
- Barnwell 325
- Towcester 119
- King's Cliffe 107
- Daventry 105
- Geddington 92
- Sulby 83
- Silverstone 51
- Blatherwycke 29
- Clypston 29
- Farndon 23
- Clipeton 17
- Laxton 16
- Blatherwick 10
- Bruerne 9
- Hinton 9
- Pipewell 9
- Moor End 7
- Thornhaugh 6
- Higham Ferrers 5
- Denford 4
- Blisworth 2
- Canons Ashby 2
- Guilsborough 2
- Thrapstone 2
- Sywell 1