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Manor Farm, Rushden

Map - Manor Farm almost centre of this section

Extract from a news article 1954

Of all the farmhouses, Manor Farm, in Bedford Road, Rushden is the special treasure.

Scheduled as a building of historic value, it was built in 1606 and bears the crest of the Prince of Wales on an ancient tablet, indicating that Royalty once stayed there.

Eight of its windows were closed up at the time of the Window Tax, and others have old inscriptions.

In 1942, three bombs fell around Willmott's Farm, Bedford Road, Rushden.

One bomb dropped in "Night Horse Field", another in "Big Field" and the third in an unnamed field . "Big Field" runs to the rear of Manor Farm and at the side of houses in Harborough Road. At that time, Mr. Willmott had a herd of cows in the field but fortunately none were killed.

The bomb left a crater measuring 75 feet by 30 feet deep in "Big Field" and a photograph of it is kept at Northamptonshire Record Office (REF. P8047-55).

Susan Hollowell (nee Jones), 2000
Extract : In August 1942 three large bombs were dropped by a German Bomber at the rear of number 60 Harborough Road, on land of Manor Farm. There were no injuries or damage to property but the craters were described by a local resident as "large enough to get a double-decker bus in".

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