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Wellingborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England situated some eleven miles from the county town of Northampton and eight miles south of Kettering. It has a population of 46,959 (2001 census). Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, United States, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ...
Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ...
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Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in the English East Midlands region. ...
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It is situated on the north side of the River Nene with most of the older town being sited on the flanks of the hills above the river's flood plain. The River Nene is a river in the east of England. ...
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It is twinned with Niort, France and Wittlich, Germany. Recently there has been talk of a new twinning with Mont Sillia in Italy and the population await further developments. Niort is a commune of western France, préfecture (capital) of the Deux-Sèvres département. ...
Wittlich is a town and a municipality, capital of the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Wellingborough dates from the 6th century. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name of Wendelburie, and was granted a market charter in 1201. The 6th century is the period from 501 - 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ...
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History As mentioned above, the town was founded in the early Saxon period. The name is formed from elements which translate, roughly, as "the town of the people of Waendel", or Waendel-ingas-burgh. Many newcomers to the town mistakenly think that the name comes from the 5 wells that are found around the town (Red Well, Hemming Well, Stanwell, Lady's Well, Whyte Well), which appear on its coat of arms. For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ...
The medieval history of Wellingborough had no features that stand out from any other small town in the country. It housed a modest monastic grange – now the Jacobean Croyland 'Abbey' – which was an offshoot of the much larger and better known monastery of Croyland Abbey, near Peterborough, some 30 miles down-river. This part of the town is known these days as 'Croyland'. A Monastic grange was a manor or other centre of a farming estate belonging to a monastery and used for food production in Great Britain or Ireland. ...
The term Jacobean refers to a period in English history that coincides with the reign of James I (1603 – 1625). ...
Croyland Abbey is an historic building, originally a manor house but now offices, in Wellingborough in the English county of Northamptonshire. ...
Crowland Abbey Croyland Abbey (occasionally spelled Crowland Abbey) is a parish church, formerly an abbey church in Crowland in the English county of Lincolnshire. ...
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In Elizabethan times the Lord of the Manor, Sir Christopher Hatton was a sponsor of Sir Francis Drake's expeditions, which is why Drake renamed one of his ships the Golden Hind. A modern connection with this is that the main hotel in the centre of town is still named the Hind Hotel. The title of Lord of the Manor arose in the English medieval system of Manorialism following the Norman Conquest. ...
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The Golden Hind was an English ship best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. ...
In the Civil War there was little of note (the largest substantial battle in the area was Naseby in 1645), although a minor skirmish in the town resulted in the carrying off to Northampton of the parish priest, Thomas Jones, by a group of Roundheads. However, after the Civil War Wellingborough was home to a substantial colony of Diggers. Little information about this period is available, which causes some local historians to suspect deliberate suppression. For other uses, see English Civil War (disambiguation). ...
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For other meanings see Diggers (disambiguation) and Levellers (disambiguation) The Diggers were a group begun by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649 which called for a total destruction of the existing social order and replacement with a communistic and agrarian lifestyle based around the precepts of Christian Nationalism, wishing to rid England...
The twentieth century Church of St Mary is a masterpiece of Ninian Comper.[1] Sir John Ninian Comper, (June 10, 1864 – December 22, 1960), was a Scottish architect of church buildings and furnishings. ...
More recent history has been undistinguished save by economic changes, many of which are more widely shared with the eastern end of the county of Northamptonshire.
From 1920-1950 Wellingborough grew into an attractive rural market town and by the late 1950s boasted all the amenities a small town could wish for including several dance halls and four cinemas.
In 1992 The Castle Theatre was opened bringing new exciting shows to the local people. The Castle is much more than a theatre it brings the local people of Wellingborough together.
Theatres/Cinemas The town no longer has a cinema. The nearest is Kettering's Odeon. The last cinema to close was The Palace which has now been made into a new Bar named 'The Cutting Room'.
Ethnic Diversity Follow the post war arrival of immigrants from the commonwealth group of nations into Britain, Wellingborough was seen as an attractive location for many who chose to work in the many local industries, most of which are now extinct. A sizeable Black Caribbean and Indian/Pakistani community grew up in this small market town, and now represents well over 10% of the total town population. More recent arrivals include the Polish community, who are often found working in the low paid service sector jobs. They are estimated to represent as much as 4% of the population in Wellingborough.
Economy Agrarian hinterland.
Boot & Shoe industry. Iron & Steel smelting (1920s - 1990s).
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Transport and Communication Links
 Wellingborough station building Wellingborough boasts excellent communication links, with the A45 dual carrage way skirting the south of the town linking the town with the A14 and M1. Which allows links not just north and south, but also to the east and west of the country. The main county town of Northampton is located 9 miles to the west of the town. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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The town has a good local bus network, with nearly all them provided by Stagecoach Northants, with buses departing every 10 mins for Northampton during the day. A half hourly X4 service also links the town with Milton Keynes, Kettering, Corby and Peterborough.
Midland Mainline operates direct trains to London St Pancras from Wellingborough railway station, departing every 30 mins, and an average train time of 55 mins. The railway line also connects Wellingborough with Kettering, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds. St Pancras will become the home of Eurostar international services in November 2007. This article is about the train operating company Midland Mainline Railway. ...
The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ...
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Several major UK airports are only within 2 hours drive of the town, including Luton, East Midlands, Birmingham and Stansted. Luton can reached directly and Stansted can be reached easily by train with one change at Leicester. East Midlands parkway will make East Midlands more accessible by train also. Birmingham is two changes away.
Shopping As a small town, Wellingborough boasts few major high street chains, with most located in the town centre and its main shopping centre called the Swansgate Shopping Centrebuilt in the 1960/70's. Including the likes of: Argos, Boots, Game, HMV, WH Smiths, Woolworths, Wilkinsons
Stores located outside the shopping centre include Woolworths, Matalan and menswear retailer Burton.
The town has a local market twice a week.
Much of the town centre was developed during the 1970's, when the town grew dramatically, based on London "overspill". In recent years this has started to look a little tired and weary and plans are currently on display and being discussed for future regeneration of the centre of Wellingborough.
There are also several out-of-town retail parks boasting the usual household-name DIY and Motor stores.
The town boasts several large supermarkets including Sainsburys, Morrisons and recently extended stores of Tesco and Aldi. With the town seeing a large influx of Polish immigrants in recent years, a number of specialist stores have opened to cater for these markets.
Schools - Wellingborough School - a private day school, was founded in 1595 and is one of the oldest schools in the country.
- Sir Christopher Hatton School (formed by the amalgamation of Breezehill Girls School and Westfield Boys School on the Breezehill site).
- Weavers School, Weavers Road and adjoining Weavers Sports Centre where it shares facilities.
- St. Columbus' School
- Wrenn School formerly Wellingborough Grammar School
- Park Junior School on Great Park Street. Park Junior was founded in 1873,and the infants school was founded 1903.
- The Avenue Infants School on the Avenue.
- Our Lady's Infant and Primary school - Located on Croyland road
- Wilby Primary School, in Wilby a neighbouring village.
The last three are primary schools which are state schools. Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ...
- Prior to 1998, John Lea School existed, demolished in 2001 is now a housing estate
Notable Wellingburians Christopher Hatton, c. ...
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Geology The geology of the area has had only relatively minor influences on the development of Wellingborough. As noted above, the town is sited on the hills adjoining the flood plain of the River Nene. In the predominantly agrarian medieval period, this combination of access to fertile, if flood-prone, valley bottom soils and drier (but heavier and more clay-rich) hillside/ hilltop soils seems to have been good for a mixed agricultural base.
The clay-rich hilltop soils are primarily a consequence of blanketing of the area with boulder clay or glacial till during the recent glaciations. On the valley sides and valley floor however, these deposits have been largely washed away in the late glacial period, and in the valley bottom extensive deposits of gravels were laid down, which have largely been exploited for building aggregate in the last century. While important for the environment of the area, in economic and employment terms, this industry was pretty minor. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till is an unsorted glacial sediment. ...
Glacial till with tufts of grass Till is an unsorted glacial sediment. ...
Iron Ore Undoubtedly though the most economically important aspect of the geology of the area is the Northampton sands ironstone formation. This is a marine sand of Jurassic age (Bajocian stage), deposited as part of an estuary sequence and overlain by a sequence of limestones and mudrocks. The Northampton sand, sometimes called the Northamptonshire sand is a geological formation found in the East Midlands of England. ...
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In the geologic timescale, the Bajocian is the age of the Middle Jurassic epoch of the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era of the Fanerozoic eon that is comprehended between 171 million 600 thousand and 167 million 700 thousand years ago, approximatedly. ...
Significant amounts of the sand have been replaced or displaced by iron minerals giving an average ore grade of around 25% wt/wt iron. To the west the iron ores have been moderately exploited for a very long time, but their high phosphorus content made them difficult to smelt and produced iron of poor quality until the development of the Bessemer steel making process and the "basic slag" smelting chemistry, which combine to make high quality steelmaking possible from these unprepossessing ores. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from a molten pig iron. ...
Basic slag is a byproduct of steelmaking by the basic version of the Bessemer process or the Linz-Donawitz process. ...
The Northampton Sands were a strategic resource for the UK in the run-up to World War II, being the best developed bulk iron producing processes wholly free from dependence on imported materials. However, because the Northampton Sands share in the regional dip of all the sediments of this part of Britain to the east-south-east, they become increasingly difficult to work as one progresses east across the county. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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Around Wellingborough it was possible to extract the ore by systematically stripping the overburden of mudrocks and limestone off the ore bed, then removing the ore, and finally replacing the overburden (often the cleaner limestone was removed to make the lime for the "basic slag" process) in the exposed cavity. This left distinctive arcuate quarries across much of the landscape around Wellingborough and north-north-east towards Corby (visit Irchester Country Park to see a much overgrown abandoned quarry redeveloped as a leisure site). Further east, around Finedon, Raunds and Chelveston, quarrying was carried out during the Second World War by underground "pillar and stall" mining. These mines were abandoned and sealed in the 1950s, and the number of people who even know of their existence is rapidly decreasing. Overburden is the term used in mining to describe material that lies above the area of economic interest. ...
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Raunds is a small market town situated in rural Northamptonshire, England. ...
Map sources for Chelveston at grid reference SP9972 Chelveston is a small village in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom and is part of the East Northamptonshire district. ...
This regional dip spelt the ultimate death knell of the iron and steel industry in the area - ultimately it was going to become uneconomic to extract such ores. For a time the Corby smelters continued using ore imported through Humberside, but they finally closed in the late-1980s. Dip has many meanings: Look up dip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
You can still find pieces of iron ore on the Ladywell allotments.
Twin towns Wellingborough is twinned with: Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm, Germany Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ...
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Wittlich is a town and a municipality, capital of the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
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