Woodford, Near Kettering, Northamptonshire, England

 

Woodford Medical Centre
Medical Centre
 

 

Doctor's Surgery

The Doctors surgery is open each weekday between 8.30am and 12.30. A Doctor is present from 9.00am each day and anyone seeking a consultation should arrive before 10.30am

The Surgery is staffed by members of the Spinneybrook Medical Centre, Irthlingborough. Any patient not wishing to wait their turn at the "first come, first served" Woodford Centre can make an appointment to be seen at Irthlingborough.

The Woodford Medical Centre is also able to dispense prescriptions prescribed at the centre whilst a doctor is present.

The centre moved to this location following many years of being located in a house  - 1 Rose Terrace.
 

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The Prince of Wales Public House

This pub on the High Street at the entrance to Newtown was built between 1860 and 1870 and was licensed to brew beer at the time. (The words Licensed to Brew are engraved onto the middle first floor window sill). At that time the property was frequented by the ironstone workers. The Prince of Wales is also known as "Top House".
 

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The Dukes Arms Public House

The Dukes Arms on the east side of the village green is thought to be the oldest pub in the village (still trading) certainly it was an ale house before 1820. Originally named "The Lord's Arms" most probably after the St. John family (Lords of the Manor), it changed its name to the Duke's Arms honouring the Duke of Wellington who frequently visited Woodford House. The name change possibly took place in the 1840's. The property once had stables on the opposite side of the present vehicular entrance.
 

The White Horse Inn

The White Horse Inn  is situated and the top of Bakers and Club Lane was according to early records a house known as The White Horse. The resident  was a Carrier - Mr Beeby who was also a beer retailer.   Evidence of old entrances to the outbuildings can still be seen in the stone / brickwork. In the 1980's a restaurant was built on the back, and a little later a conservatory was added.
 

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Greg's Fish and Chips

This shop has been a Fish and chip shop for many years. For a short period in the 1980's it became a kebab shop before returning to its former use as a Fish and Chip Shop.
 

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Convenience Store and Post Office

These premises were once a Public house known as The Engine prior to becoming a private residence in the 1950s. The property became a general store in the 1980s before taking on the Post Office business in the 1990s when the former Post Office closed.
 

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Headlines

The newest shop - well business in Woodford - a hairdressers.  This property originally known as Sunflower cottage was built in 1899, cottage with attached shop. The shop was originally a drapers before becoming a corner shop in approximately 1930 which sold anything and everything owned by a Mr Pitts and then his son, Clifford, closing in the mid 1970's. The property remained largely empty until 2003 when it opened in its present guise.
 

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The Closet

This shop was originally built in 1890 and after some years it was enlarged taking in the attached house and front garden on the High Street (see flat roof opposite Sunnyside). The shop was owned by a Mr Neale who sold groceries. In 1925 it became the new Co-op when the shop outgrew it's previous premises in the High Street. The entrance to the shop was originally on the corner and by the 1940s by way of a recessed door opposite Sunnyside before being moved to its present position. The Co-op closed in 1980s and the shop was left empty many years, before becoming an Antique shop in the early 1990's. In 2002 the present business moved in.
 

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The Baptist Chapel

For historical details click here, or for more general information click here.
 

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The Parish Church

For historical details click here, or for more general information click here
 

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The Church of England Primary School

For general information click here
 

This page last amended on
02-07-2008

 

 

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