Lamport, Northamptonshire

Lamport is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.

The church contains monuments to members of the Isham family who lived at Lamport Hall from 1560 to 1976.

[4] Lamport Hall, the seat of the Isham baronets for around 350 years, stands opposite the church.

The Carnegie Medal-winning children's author Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who wrote under the pseudonym BB, was born in Lamport.

The ore was at that time taken a short distance by narrow gauge (3 feet) tramway and then aerial ropeway to sidings on the railway between Brixworth and Hanging Houghton.

Steam and later diesel quarrying machines were used and in 1942 an electric dragline was introduced.