For a few years several horses were seen grazing in the paddocks on either side of Barrington Road, this was at the top near to the Harborough Field surgery in Rushden.

That has all changed now with over one hundred houses built on either side of the road, these are a mixture of private and social dwellings.

They were built over a three year period by a York based company that was part of the Persimmon group called Charles Church, and were completed in 2016.

Before the actual house building could begin, there was quite a lot of ground work and civil engineering to be completed.

A sign of the times in the building trade was that there was a constant struggle to recruit bricklaying gangs to the site.

The roads were finally surfaced, and landscaping was also done over the perfect summer months of 2016.

In the summer of 2016 the mortgage rate was at a really low point with an interest borrowing rate of around 3%.

So the building company marketed buying the houses with a strap line of "why rent when you can buy a two bedroomed house for £430 per month."

The road names took inspiration from two castles in the north of England, and one on the Isle of Wight.

On one side of Barrington Road are Carisbrooke Road, and that leads in to Bamburgh Close, and on the opposite side is Alnwick Close and Harborough Field Medical Centre.

Before work started	View from Harborough Field Surgery car park
Carisbrooke Road into Bamburgh Close	Building the houses
Alnwick Close	From Carisbrooke Road looking towards Alnwick Close

Harborough Field Medical Centre