| Nobottle | |
|---|---|
 Townsend Farm, Nobottle | |
.svg)  Nobottle Location withinNorthamptonshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP672630 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Northampton |
| Postcode district | NN7 |
| Dialling code | 01604 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Nobottle is ahamlet inWestNorthamptonshire in England. The population is included in thecivil parish ofBrington. It borders theAlthorp estate, which owns much of the property. Nobottle used to have a 600ydrifle range (the only one in Northamptonshire), now shut by theMOD some 20 years (local knowledge). TheMidshires Waylong distance footpath passes through Nobottle. A Roman building was excavated here in 1927-9 and a hoard of 814 coins found, spanning several hundred years, but mostly of the late 4th century.[1]
The hamlet's name means 'New building'. Nobottle is inBrington parish.[2]
With only 13 houses, about half a mile long, Nobottle is one of the smallest hamlets in England. However, Nobottle gave its name to a Saxonhundred, which at the time ofDomesday Book (1086) was the location of the hundred court.[3] In 1849 the Nobottle Hundred comprised 18 parishes, with 9,000 inhabitants, though the hamlet itself then only had 99 inhabitants.[4]
Nobottle is a place name inthe Shire in the north west corner of the map on the front endpapers ofThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. InThe Treason of Isengard, book 7 of theHistory of Middle-earth series,Christopher Tolkien reveals that he added Nobottle to the map (with his father's permission) in 1943, though he did not at the time realize the town's name's origin, and thought it referred to the village being "so poor and remote that it did not even possess an inn".[5] Earlier, the Tolkien scholarTom Shippey had taken it that the authorborrowed the unusual name from the Northamptonshire hamlet.[6]
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