A history of the county of Northampton
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A history of the county of Northampton
（The Victoria history of the counties of England）
University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2002-
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- v. 7
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A history of the county of Northamptonshire
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注記
v. 5: edited by Philip Riden ; assisted by Charles Insley; v. 7: edited by Mark Page and Matthew Bristow
v. 5. Cleley hundred. -- v. 7. Corby and Great Oakley
"Vicitoria county history" -- v. 5
"A history of the county of Northamptonshire"--P. facing t.p, v. 5
Publishers varies: v. 7-, Woodbridge : Published for the Institute of Historical Research, by Boydell & Brewer
Includes index
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v. 5 ISBN 9781904356011
内容説明
The history of Calne, a market and industrial town in north Wiltshire, and the places around it.
Calne, a small town in north Wiltshire, stood on a large royal estate, and the witan met there - St Dunstan survived the partial collapse of a building at one meeting. It sent members to parliament from the thirteenth century, andit became a pocket borough in the eighteenth. The town stands on what until 1971 was the main London to Bristol road; markets and fairs were held, and inns flourished. It was also industrial: water-powered mills were used for fulling, and from the sixteenth century to the 1840s it was a centre for cloth making. The topography of the town, its growth, government and cultural life are fully explored, and churches, chapels and schools discussed. In Calne's hinterland most settlement was in small villages with open fields and commonable pastures. Bowood park was inclosed from the forest c.1618 and Bowood House was built in the park c.1727. The house, the changes to it by Robert Adam and others, and the redesigning of its park by 'Capability' Brown are fully described. In the nineteenth century many estate cottages were built. For the places around Calne the history of the settlement and churches in each village, the manorial descents, and the evolution of farming and farms are all traced, and there are architectural descriptions of the churches.D.A.CROWLEY is County Editor, Victorial History of Wiltshire.
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v. 7 ISBN 9781904356370
内容説明
Comprehensive and authoritative history of Corby and Great Oakley, charting their growth and development from the early medieval period to the present day.
Lying in north Northamptonshire, close to the borders with Leicestershire and Rutland, the neighbouring parishes of Corby and Great Oakley were formerly part of the ancient administrative division of Corby hundred. Both remainedagricultural villages, typical of much of rural Northamptonshire before 1932 when the landscape of the area was dramatically altered by large-scale industrialisation associated with the production of iron and steel following the discovery of rich ironstone deposits to the north and east of Corby village. Corby was most directly affected by these changes, with the parish experiencing a dramatic rise in population after the Stewarts & Lloyds Company chose toconcentrate their entire steel producing operation there. Between 1932 and 1950, the increasing population resulted in the hasty construction, firstly by the Stewarts & Lloyds Company and later by the Corby UDC, of housing estates on former agricultural land adjacent to the steelworks, before Corby was designated a New Town in April 1950 and responsibility for it passed to the Corby Development Corporation. From this point on, Great Oakley was inexorablydrawn into the expanding new town as it spread southwards, eventually being incorporated firstly into Corby urban district in1967 and in 1993 into Corby Borough.
Although Corby is perhaps best known for the social problems or"New Town Blues" that blighted it after the steelworks (the town's principal employer) closed in 1980, this volume documents the lesser known medieval and early modern history of Corby and Great Oakley; it shows how generations of inhabitants utilised the rich natural geology and the abundant woodland to supplement the local agrarian economy, before examining in detail Corby's industrialisation, physical and economic growth, post-industrial decline and 21st-century regeneration.
Mark Page is Assistant Editor, Victoria County History, Oxfordshire; Matthew Bristow is Research Manager, Victoria County History.
目次
Introduction: Corby and Great Oakley: Agriculture and Industry in a Woodland Landscape - Mark Page
Corby to 1932 - Mark Page
Great Oakley - Mark Page
Industrial Corby and New Town 1932-79 - Cynthia Brown and Matthew Bristow
Post-Industrial Corby 1980-2012 - Cynthia Brown and Matthew Bristow
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