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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 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 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, Buck Well, Stanwell, Lady's Well, Whyte Well), which appear on its coat of arms.
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'.
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.
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 killing of a Parliamentarian officer Captain John Sawyer. Severe reprisals followed which included the carrying off to Northampton of the parish priest, Thomas Jones, and 40 prisoners 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.
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 m
The twentieth century Church of St Mary is a masterpiece of Ninian Comper.
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.
Wellingborough originally had two railway stations, the current Midland Mainline, and another on London Road. The London Road station linked to the Midland Mainline and went on to Peterborough as the Nene Valley Railway.
Wellingborough London Road railway station is a former railway station in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on a line which connected Peterborough and Northampton. This station was on a important junction to Midland Main Line which linked south of Wellingborough. The station remains has gone with the line ending under the A45.
Wellingborough railway station serves the town of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, England. It lies on the Midland Main Line, it is 104 kilometres from London St. Pancras. East Midlands Trains (EMT) operate the station and run all of its services using modern Meridian trains. The station is to the east of the town. It is also the closest station to the town of Rushden. The film Kinky Boots featured Wellingborough station but called it Northampton. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1857 on its extension from Leicester to Bedford and Hitchin. It was known for a time as Wellingborough Midland Road to distinguish from one built by the LNWR in 1866 at Wellingborough London Road on its line between Northampton and Peterborough which has long disappeared. A curve linked the two stations from west to north.
Wellingborough School is an independent fee-paying day school situated in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. It was founded in 1595 making it one of the oldest schools in the country.
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