[4] Archaeological finds in the south of the adjacent field have yielded both pottery and worked flints of Bronze Age type.

[3] In the Domesday Book of 1086, Boughton was described as a village comprising 39 households in the hundred of Spelhoe; the landlord of the estate following the Norman Conquest was Countess Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror.

[3] While there has been little physical evidence, the Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record documents the presence of a possible Norman Motte-and-bailey castle within the current Pocket Park, although it is unlikely to have been maintained long after the 11th century.

It was also the site of the last robbery attempted by the infamous highwayman George Catherall (or ‘Captain Slash’) who was caught, tried and hanged in Northampton in 1826.

[3] These properties are grouped around Butchers Lane and Church Street; The Old Bakehouse and Obelisk Farm are described in their listing descriptions as early-17th century whilst Merewater, formerly the Lion Pub, has a date-stone giving the year 1634.

[1] The de Boughton family held the manor under Edward I, which passed through to Sir John Briscoe and Lord Ashburnham in the late 17th century.

[3] The gardens to the south west of the Hall are surrounded by a large stone retaining wall that dates from the early 18th century.

[3] The parkland, which lies mainly to the north of the village, but previously stretched eastwards also, was largely redesigned in the 18th century by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), a friend of Horace Walpole.

[3] Wentworth also installed a collection of follies which still stand, including The Spectacles (twin towers with a Gothic arch), Bunkers Hill Farm (1776), New Park Barn (1770) which resembles a fortified castle[9] (now called Fox Covert Hall and converted into a house) and the castellated Hawking Tower (1756 or earlier),[9] the main gate lodge on east side of the A508 main road.

In 2022 a limited edition reprint of the 2011 book was published to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of William Wentworth, Earl Strafford – the person responsible for the landscape and almost all the associated follies.

In 2007, proposals were submitted to build a large housing development on Buckton Fields, land which sits within the Boughton parish to the south west of the village.

An archaeological survey of the land in 2013 identified features associated with post-medieval agriculture, an early World War II searchlight battery and a mid 20th century rubbish pit.

Education minister Nick Gibb said Department for Education (DfE) inspectors had "identified issues that related to the structural integrity of the buildings, weakening its ability for example to withstand extreme events such as high winds or a big snowfall or indeed a collision from a vehicle.