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This page last amended on
20-03-2012
Village Businesses
Spinneybrook Medical Centre
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Medical Centre
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Doctor's Surgery
13 Thrapston Road, Woodford
01832 732494
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.
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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 1994 when the former
Post Office closed.
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Hairtechnix
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 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
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