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Há 4 dias · Northampton, town and borough, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, in the Midlands region of England. Originating about 1100 as a walled town, Northampton was granted its first charter in 1189. Its walls were demolished because the town sided with Parliament in the English Civil Wars.
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Northampton began as an Anglo-Saxon village. It was called Hamm tun, which means the village by the well-watered meadow. Later it was called North Hamm tun, probably to distinguish it from Southampton. Gradually the name changed to Northampton. When they occupied Eastern England in the late 9th century the Danes turned Northampton into a stronghold...
Northampton suffered a severe fire in 1516 when many of the houses were destroyed. Fire was a constant hazard when most buildings were made of wood with thatched roofs. On the other hand, if they burned these buildings could be easily replaced. Like all Tudor towns, Northampton also suffered outbreaks of plague. However, Northampton continued to gr...
At the beginning of the 19th century, Northampton only had a population of about 7,000 but it grew rapidly. By the 1870s it was n40,000 and by 1900 about 87,000. Unlike many Victorian towns, Northampton did not have appalling slums. From 1823 the streets of Northampton were lit by gas. In 1838 a lunatic asylum was built. The first public library in...
The boundaries of Northampton were extended in 1901. In the early 20th century shoemaking was still the dominant industry but it was already declining and many men were laid off in the 1920s and 1930s. The council tried to attract new industries to Northampton in the 1930s with limited success. The rapid growth in the population of the late 19th ce...
Late 9th Century Danes conquer eastern England and turn the village of Hamm tun into a fortified town 914 The name Northampton is first recorded. Northampton is a flourishing market town. 1010 The Danes burn Northampton 1086 Northampton has a population of about 1,500 1189 Northampton is given a charter (a document granting the people certain right...
Northamptonshire is first mentioned by name in the Historia Eliensis, in connection with events which occurred at the close of the 10th century. At the time of the Domesday survey the chief lay-tenant in Northamptonshire was Robert, earl of Mortain, whose fief escheated to the crown in 1106.
Northamptonshire's historic-county flag. In the 1st century BC, most of what later became Northamptonshire became part of the territory of the Catuvellauni, a Belgic tribe, the Northamptonshire area forming their most northerly possession. The Catuvellauni were in turn conquered by the Romans in 43 AD.
Northamptonshire is a storehouse of history, both old and new, opening a treasure chest of heroes and heroines, battles won and lost, and legends of love and losses. Few small villages have as many tragic royal associations as Fotheringhay, the the east of the county.
Há 6 dias · The earliest reference to Northampton in writing occurs in 914, and though the archæological evidence clearly indicates occupation of the castle site in the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon periods, (fn. 1) no settlement of any importance seems to have existed at Northampton before the time of the Danish conquest.
