{{Short description|Village in Northamptonshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Use British English|date=March 2014}} {{infobox UK place |country = England |official_name = Wappenham |coordinates = {{coord|52.1043|-1.0889|display=inline,title}} |population = 294 |population_ref = (2011 Census) |unitary_england= West Northamptonshire |lieutenancy_england= Northamptonshire |region = East Midlands |constituency_westminster = South Northamptonshire |post_town = Towcester |postcode_district = NN12 |postcode_area = NN |dial_code = 01327 |os_grid_reference = SP6245 | london_distance = {{convert|70|mi|km|0}} |static_image = Wappenham Village.jpg |static_image_width = 250px |static_image_caption = View Towards Helmdon, Wappenham

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'''Wappenham''' is a linear village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of settlements |url=https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/neighbourhood-planning/list-settlements |publisher=West Northamptonshire Council |access-date=18 February 2026}}</ref> It is {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} south-west of Towcester, north of Syresham and north-west of Silverstone and forms part of West Northamptonshire. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 266 people,<ref>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=797389&c=wappenham&d=16&e=15&g=473938&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1259188287780&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Office for National Statistics: Wappenham CP: Parish headcounts]. Retrieved 25 November 2009</ref> increasing to 294 at the 2011 Census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130086&c=Walgrave&d=16&e=62&g=6451038&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1468236074719&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=11 July 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>

The village's name means 'homestead/village of Waeppa' or 'hemmed-in land of Waeppa'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Wappenham|title = Key to English Place-names}}</ref>

==Buildings== Wappenham has some of the earliest architectural works by Sir George Gilbert Scott.<ref name = "Pevsner">{{Cite book | author=Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision)| title=The Buildings of England &ndash; Northamptonshire| year=1961 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=London and New Haven | isbn=978-0-300-09632-3 | pages=306–7}}</ref>{{Ref label|view|a|a}}180px|left|thumb|Gilbert Scott's VicarageThe red-brick vicarage, east of the church, built in 1833 as a home for his father Reverend Thomas Scott who was vicar of Wappenham at the time, was Gilbert Scott's first work, built while he was still an assistant architect. Pevsner describes it as ''"...only remarkable for being Sir George Gilbert Scott's first building"''.<ref name = "Pevsner"/> The village also contains four other houses designed by Gilbert Scott, and on the village green there is a still-functional red K6 telephone box designed by Gilbert Scott's grandson Giles Gilbert Scott.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cole |first=David |title=The Work of Gilbert Scott |year=1980 |pages=441–2 |publisher=Architectural Press |location=London |isbn=0-85139-723-9}}</ref>

180px|left|thumb|Wappenham House

The Manor House Wappenham west of the church is dated 1704.<ref name = "Pevsner"/>

400px|left|thumb|St Mary the Virgin

The church is 13th century and dedicated to St Mary. There are several monuments located there to various individuals, including Thomas Lovett of Astwell Castle (d.1492), Thomas Lovett III (d.1542), Constance Butler (d.1499), and Sir Thomas Billing (d.1481), Chief Justice, of Biddlesden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.<ref name = "Pevsner"/>

Wappenham had its own railway station until 1951, on the former Towcester/Banbury line between Helmdon and Greens Norton Junction. The last train on the line ran on 12 July 1953.<ref>[http://www.smjr.info The Unofficial SMJ Society]</ref>

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== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Wappenham}} *[http://www.northantsvillages.org.uk/wappenham/ Village website] *{{oscoor gbx|SP627457}}

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Category:Villages in Northamptonshire Category:Civil parishes in Northamptonshire Category:West Northamptonshire District

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