Sulgrave is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) north of Brackley.

The village is just south of a stream that rises in the parish and flows east to join the River Tove, a tributary of the Great Ouse.

[5][7] Evidence was found suggesting that the first construction on the site was a timber-framed hall about 80 feet (24 m) long[8] and a detached stone and timber building, probably built in the late 10th century.

[7] East-south-east of Sulgrave is Gallow Field, within Stuchbury, the site of the Anglo-Saxon moots for the Domesday-era hundred of Alboldstow.

[10] After the Norman Conquest Sulgrave was one of the manors granted to Ghilo or Gilo, brother of Ansculf de Picquigny.

[11][12] In the middle of the 12th century the manor was granted to the Cluniac Priory of St Andrew at Northampton, and the ringwork site was abandoned as a manorial seat.

[13] In 1539 or 1540 the Crown sold three manors, including Sulgrave, to Lawrence Washington, a wool merchant who in 1532 had been Mayor of Northampton.

[14] He is notable for being the great-grandfather of George Washington, who from 1775 commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and in 1789 was elected first President of the United States.

The great hall has a stone floor, and its Tudor fireplace contains a salt cupboard carved with Lawrence Washington's initials.

[8] In about 1700 John Hodges had the house rebuilt and enlarged by adding a north-east wing at right angles to the original Tudor building.

[18] It is part of the benefice of Culworth, with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville, and Chipping Warden, with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.

At the southwest corner of the village, south of the church, are traces of what may have been houses but are more likely to have been part of the manor complex based around the ringwork.

[5] Behind houses on the northwest side of the village are low banks and shallow ditches that suggest closes larger than the current gardens.

[5] In the northeast part of the village, on the south side of Manor Road, are traces of house platforms and earth banks that surrounded their closes.

[5] They are evidence of the open field system of farming that prevailed in the parish until Parliament passed the Sulgrave Inclosure Act 1759 (33 Geo.

The London and North Eastern Railway succeeded the GC in 1923 and renamed the main line station "Helmdon for Sulgrave" in 1928.

[27] Under its constitution, profits are not for distribution to its members but must be reinvested in the enterprise to continue and develop its services to the community.