1. North Hall Manor Start at the County Heritage Site near the Village Hall on Newlands Road. Enter the site by the wooden gate at the far side of the playing field. This is the site of the medieval manor of North Hall. The site is one of the County Heritage sites in Northampton. A panel gives an artists impression of the manor as it may have looked around 1300AD. Look out for the two small rectangular fishponds, one on either side of the moat; they were probably stew ponds where fish were stored until required by the manor. North Hall Manor was probably not the principal residence in the village. By 1657, North Hall Manor had been sold to John Langham, also owner of the larger Walgrave Manor, for £760. Fishponds One particular feature of life on a medieval manor has left its mark on Walgrave today; the village contains some excellent examples of medieval fishponds. These ponds were not garden features, but were built to breed or store fish for food. The cost of building and maintaining them was high and only the wealthy could afford them. Fishponds are often associated with manors or monastic sites and can be seen today at North Hall Manor and at Hall Farm. Ponds were often built close to a manor house for security, since poaching of fresh fish was common in medieval times.
	Return to the playing field. Turn left. Follow the path to the corner of the playing field by the fence, where you will find an alleyway. Continue down the footpath across the bottom of Amber Drive. You will reach a T-junction with “The Ditch”
	2. The Ditch The “Ditch” which runs at the rear of Amber Drive and Walkers Acre is thought to mark an early village boundary..
	Follow the Ditch towards the Old School on the corner of the Ditch and Gold Street.
	3. The Old School and School House The National School (now 'The Old School') and adjoining Headmaster's house (now 'The Old School House') were built in 1828 as a result of representations by the curate at the time who was concerned about the influence of 'dissenters' in the village. The building was paid for by Sir James Langham and the stone was carried free of charge by the local farmers. It originally had a thatched roof, which was replaced by slate after 1910. An extension to house indoor toilets and a new staircase was added in the late 1870s - this is the lower part of the building closest to the front gate. Where it joins the main building you can see the position of earlier windows and/or doors. This school was established before compulsory education was introduced and children had to pay to attend. The building housed junior and infant classes on two storeys and at its peak had over 170 pupils attending the day school and Sunday school. It was the village school until 1910, by which time the building was considered unsuitable and was replaced by the current school on the Kettering Road. From 1910 until the early 1970s 'The Old School' was used as Church Rooms while 'The Old School House' has always been a private residence
	Continue past the Old School down Gold Street to the Baptist Chapel
	4. The Baptist Chapel and Gold Street The first Baptist Church was built in Walgrave in 1717 and had 100 members. The present Chapel was built in 1786. It has a schoolroom and a small cemetery at the rear.
	Return up Gold Street turning right towards Zion Hill to the cross roads where Northall, Zion Hill and Silver Street meet.
	5. The Spout and Spionkop Cottages. At the crossroads, look for the parapet on your right where the brook emerges from beneath the road. The water running from a pipe into the brook is spring water. A stone step let into the bank here used to give people access to a trough where the water collected. Known locally as “the Spout”, such springs were a source of water for villagers until mains water was installed in 1947. Off to your left you will see Spionkop Cottages (now Northall). This “terraced” row was built at a time of great expansion in the boot/shoe industry in Walgrave and each cottage has a workshop at the rear. The cottages name commemorates the battle of Spionkop South Africa (23 January 1900). Many of the men lost at Spionkop came from northern towns and hence a number of football stands were named after the battle- the most famous being Liverpool’s Kop.
	Continue up Zion Hill