East Haddon

Coordinates: 52°18′38″N 1°01′34″W / 52.3106°N 1.0261°W / 52.3106; -1.0261

East Haddon is a small village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. The village is located eight miles from Northampton and is surrounded by the villages of Holdenby, Ravensthorpe and Long Buckby. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 651 people.

Facilities

East Haddon has a primary school, a church, a village hall and historical items dotted around it such as the old hall, the village pump and the old chapel. East Haddon has one pub, the Red Lion. The village is in the Guilsborough School catchment area, which is now in the top 1,000 schools in the country and in the top 10 in the county.

It is also home to the Show Gardens of Haddonstone, a company formed and based in the village since 1971. The gardens have been featured in books by gardening writers Peter Coates and Timothy Mowl. The show gardens are on the site of the company's head offices. The gardens are maintained throughout the year and contain Garden Ornament and Cast Stone architecture products that Haddonstone sell. The gardens are also open for the National Garden Scheme, and raised over £1,000 in May 2012.