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WELLINGBOROUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 507 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELLINGBOROUGH , a See also:

market See also:town in the eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Northamptonshire, See also:England, 631 m. N.N.W. from See also:London by the Midland railway; served also by the London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 18,412. It lies on the declivity of a See also:hill near the junction of the Ise with the Nene, in a pleasant well-wooded district. The See also:church of St See also:Luke is a beautiful See also:building with See also:Norman and See also:Early See also:English portions, but is mainly Decorated, with a western See also:tower and See also:spire. The See also:grammar-See also:schools, founded in 1594 and endowed with the revenues of a suppressed gild, include a- school of the second and a school of the third grade, the former a building of red See also:brick in the See also:Renaissance See also:style erected in 188o, and the latter an old Elizabethan structure. Another educational endowment is See also:Freeman's school, founded by See also:John Freeman in 1711. There are also several charities. The See also:principal public building is the See also:corn See also:exchange. The town is of some importance as a centre of agricultural See also:trade; but the See also:staple See also:industry is in See also:leather. A See also:great impulse to the prosperity of the town was given by the introduction of the See also:boot and See also:shoe trade, especially the manufacture of uppers. Smelting, See also:brewing and See also:iron-See also:founding are also carried on, as well as the manufacture of portable See also:steam-engines, and iron ore is raised in the vicinity.

In 948 See also:

Edred gave the church at Wellingborough to See also:Crowland See also:Abbey, and the See also:grant was confirmed by See also:King See also:Edgar in 966. In the reign of See also:Edward II. the See also:abbot was See also:lord in full. The town received the grant of a market in 1201. It was formerly famed for the chalybeate springs to which it owes its name, and in 1621 was visited by See also:Charles I. and his See also:queen, who resided in tents during a whole See also:season while taking the See also:waters. It was after its almost See also:total destruction by See also:fire in 1738 that the town was built on its See also:present site on the hill.

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