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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88" title="ولینگ‌بورو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ولینگ‌بورو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li 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interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk 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data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Велингборо – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Велингборо" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Wellingborough" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a 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class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">65 miles (105 km)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Unitary authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Northamptonshire" title="North Northamptonshire">North Northamptonshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a 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title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Areas of the town</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Great_Doddington" title="Great Doddington">Great Doddington</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Great_Harrowden" title="Great Harrowden">Great Harrowden</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Irchester" title="Irchester">Irchester</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Little_Irchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Irchester">Little Irchester</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Queensway</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Redhill_Grange" title="Redhill Grange">Redhill Grange</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Town Centre</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Wilby,_Northamptonshire" title="Wilby, Northamptonshire">Wilby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">WELLINGBOROUGH</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NN_postcode_area" title="NN postcode area">NN8 NN9</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01933</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_Police" title="Northamptonshire Police">Northamptonshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service">Northamptonshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Ambulance_Service" title="East Midlands Ambulance Service">East Midlands</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Wellingborough and Rushden</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wellingboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk/">www<wbr />.wellingboroughtowncouncil<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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.nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Northamptonshire" title="List of places in Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Wellingborough&params=52_18_10_N_0_41_40_W_region:GB_type:city(56564)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°18′10″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°41′40″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.30278°N 0.69444°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.30278; -0.69444</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wellingborough</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'w' in 'wind'">w</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ŋ/: 'ng' in 'sing'">ŋ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">WEL</span>-ing-brə</i></a>) is a market town and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> in the <a href="/wiki/North_Northamptonshire" title="North Northamptonshire">North Northamptonshire</a> unitary authority area of <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, England. It is 65 miles (105 km) from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and 11 miles (18 km) from <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, and is on the north side of the <a href="/wiki/River_Nene" title="River Nene">River Nene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Geology_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Geology-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally named "Wendelingburgh" (the stronghold of Wændel's people),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon">Anglo-Saxon</a> settlement is mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 as "Wendelburie". The town's market was granted a <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> in 1201 by <a href="/wiki/John_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="John of England">King John</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wellingborough_Market-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the 2021 census, it had a population of 56,564.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The built-up area also includes suburbs <a href="/wiki/Wilby,_Northamptonshire" title="Wilby, Northamptonshire">Wilby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Doddington" title="Great Doddington">Great Doddington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Irchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Irchester">Little Irchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redhill_Grange" title="Redhill Grange">Redhill Grange</a>, Stanton Cross and Glenvale Park. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town was established in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England" title="History of Anglo-Saxon England">Anglo-Saxon period</a> and was called "Wendelingburgh". It is surrounded by five wells: Redwell, <a href="/wiki/Hemmingwell" title="Hemmingwell">Hemmingwell</a>, Witche's Well, Lady's Well and Whytewell, which appear on its <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henrietta_Maria" class="mw-redirect" title="Henrietta Maria">Henrietta Maria</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Consort">Queen Consort</a> of King <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a>, came with her physician <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_de_Mayerne" title="Théodore de Mayerne">Théodore de Mayerne</a> to take the waters on 14 July 1627.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:All_Hallows_Church_Steeple,_Wellingborough,_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg/220px-All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg/330px-All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg/440px-All_Hallows_Church_Steeple%2C_Wellingborough%2C_Northants_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182640.jpg 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/All_Hallows_Church,_Wellingborough" title="All Hallows Church, Wellingborough">All Hallows Church</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The medieval town of Wellingborough housed a modest <a href="/wiki/Monastic_grange" title="Monastic grange">monastic grange</a> – now the <a href="/wiki/Jacobean_architecture" title="Jacobean architecture">Jacobean</a> <a href="/wiki/Croyland_Abbey,_Wellingborough" title="Croyland Abbey, Wellingborough">Croyland Abbey</a> – which was an offshoot of the monastery of <a href="/wiki/Crowland_Abbey" title="Crowland Abbey">Crowland (or Croyland) Abbey</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a>, some 30 miles (48 km) down-river. This part of the town is known as Croyland.<sup id="cite_ref-wards_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wards-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/All_Hallows_Church,_Wellingborough" title="All Hallows Church, Wellingborough">All Hallows Church</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the oldest existing building in Wellingborough and dates from c. 1160. The manor of Wellingborough belonged to <a href="/wiki/Crowland_Abbey" title="Crowland Abbey">Crowland Abbey</a> <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a>, from Saxon times and the monks probably built the original church.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest part of the building is the <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> doorway opening in from the later south porch. The church was enlarged with the addition of more side chapels and by the end of the 13th century had assumed more or less its present plan. The west tower, crowned with a graceful <a href="/wiki/Broach_spire" title="Broach spire">broach spire</a> rising to 160 feet (49 m), was completed about 1270, after which the chancel was rebuilt and given the east window twenty years later.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church was restored in 1861 by <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Francis_Law" title="Edmund Francis Law">Edmund Francis Law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pevsner_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pevsner-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Wellingborough" title="Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough">Church of St Mary</a> was built by <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Ninian_Comper" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Ninian Comper">Ninian Comper</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wellingborough was given a <a href="/wiki/Market_charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Market charter">Market Charter</a> dated 3 April 1201 when <a href="/wiki/John_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="John of England">King John</a> granted it to the "Abbot of Croyland and the monks serving God there" continuing, "they shall have a market at Wendligburg (Wellingborough) for one day each week that is Wednesday".<sup id="cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wellingborough_Market-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan era</a> the <a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of the Manor">Lord of the Manor</a>, Sir <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hatton" title="Christopher Hatton">Christopher Hatton</a> was a sponsor of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Drake" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Francis Drake">Sir Francis Drake</a>'s expeditions; Drake renamed one of his ships the <i><a href="/wiki/Golden_Hind" title="Golden Hind">Golden Hind</a></i> after the heraldic symbol of the Hatton family. A hotel in a <a href="/wiki/Grade_II_listed_building" class="mw-redirect" title="Grade II listed building">Grade II listed building</a> built in the 17th century, was known variously as the Hind Hotel and later as the Golden Hind Hotel.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Croyland_Abbey,_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg/220px-Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg/330px-Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg/440px-Croyland_Abbey%2C_Wellingborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_182517.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Wellingborough Croyland Abbey</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a> the largest substantial conflict in the area was the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Naseby" title="Battle of Naseby">Battle of Naseby</a> in 1645, although a minor skirmish in the town resulted in the 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 <a href="/wiki/Roundheads" class="mw-redirect" title="Roundheads">Roundheads</a>. However, after the Civil War Wellingborough was home to a colony of <a href="/wiki/Diggers" title="Diggers">Diggers</a>. Little is known about this period. </p><p>Wellingborough was bombed during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, on Monday 3 August 1942. Six people were killed and 55 injured; fortunately, being a bank holiday, thousands of people were away at a fair at a nearby village. Many houses and other buildings in the centre of the town were damaged in the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally the town had two railway stations: the first called <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_London_Road_railway_station" title="Wellingborough London Road railway station">Wellingborough London Road</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-London_Rd_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-London_Rd-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opened in 1845 and closed in 1966, linked <a href="/wiki/Northampton_and_Peterborough_Railway" title="Northampton and Peterborough Railway">Peterborough with Northampton</a>. The second station, <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_railway_station" title="Wellingborough railway station">Wellingborough Midland Road</a>, is still in operation with trains to London and the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands">East Midlands</a>. Since then the 'Midland Road' was dropped from the station name.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Midland Road station opened in 1857 with trains serving Kettering and a little later Corby, was linked in 1867 to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">London St Pancras</a>. In 1898 in the <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_rail_accident" title="Wellingborough rail accident">Wellingborough rail accident</a> six or seven people died and around 65 were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1880s two businessmen held a public meeting to build three tram lines in Wellingborough, the group merged with a similar company in <a href="/wiki/Newport_Pagnell" title="Newport Pagnell">Newport Pagnell</a> who started to lay tram tracks, but within two years the plans were abandoned due to lack of funds.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a></div> <p>Wellingborough is part of the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Unitary authorities in England">unitary authority</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Northamptonshire" title="North Northamptonshire">North Northamptonshire</a>. Until 2021 it was seat of <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough (borough)">Borough Council of Wellingborough</a> The borough council covered 20 settlements including the town together with <a href="/wiki/Bozeat" title="Bozeat">Bozeat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earls_Barton" title="Earls Barton">Earls Barton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Easton_Maudit" title="Easton Maudit">Easton Maudit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecton,_Northamptonshire" title="Ecton, Northamptonshire">Ecton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Finedon" title="Finedon">Finedon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Doddington" title="Great Doddington">Great Doddington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Harrowden" title="Great Harrowden">Great Harrowden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grendon,_Northamptonshire" title="Grendon, Northamptonshire">Grendon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hardwick,_Northamptonshire" title="Hardwick, Northamptonshire">Hardwick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irchester" title="Irchester">Irchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isham" title="Isham">Isham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Harrowden" title="Little Harrowden">Little Harrowden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Irchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Irchester">Little Irchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mears_Ashby" title="Mears Ashby">Mears Ashby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orlingbury" title="Orlingbury">Orlingbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strixton" title="Strixton">Strixton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sywell" title="Sywell">Sywell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wilby,_Northamptonshire" title="Wilby, Northamptonshire">Wilby</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wollaston,_Northamptonshire" title="Wollaston, Northamptonshire">Wollaston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wards_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wards-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2021 the <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Wellingborough" title="Borough of Wellingborough">Borough of Wellingborough</a> was abolished and replaced by a new unitary authority called North Northamptonshire, which covers the areas of the districts of Wellingborough, <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Corby" title="Borough of Corby">Corby</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Northamptonshire" title="East Northamptonshire">East Northamptonshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Kettering" title="Borough of Kettering">Kettering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elections for the new authorities were due to be held on 7 May 2020, but were delayed due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Concurrent with these changes, the <a href="/wiki/Unparished_area" title="Unparished area">unparished area</a> of Wellingborough was established as a <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> and gained a new <a href="/wiki/Parish_council_(England)" title="Parish council (England)">Town Council</a>, eliminating the need for <a href="/wiki/Charter_trustee" title="Charter trustee">charter trustees</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wellingborough has a <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">mayor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wellingborough is part of the <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Wellingborough Constituency</a> which includes the town, surrounding villages and other urban areas. The current MP is <a href="/wiki/Gen_Kitchen" title="Gen Kitchen">Gen Kitchen</a>. Most wards in the (former) <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Wellingborough" title="Borough of Wellingborough">Borough Council of Wellingborough</a> are covered by the constituency and also include the wards in the (former) <a href="/wiki/East_Northamptonshire" title="East Northamptonshire">East Northamptonshire</a> district, the wards are: <a href="/wiki/Bozeat" title="Bozeat">Bozeat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brickhill" title="Brickhill">Brickhill</a>, Croyland, <a href="/wiki/Finedon" title="Finedon">Finedon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Doddington" title="Great Doddington">Great Doddington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wilby,_Northamptonshire" title="Wilby, Northamptonshire">Wilby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harrowden,_Bedfordshire" title="Harrowden, Bedfordshire">Harrowden</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sywell" title="Sywell">Sywell</a> (excluding <a href="/wiki/Ecton,_Northamptonshire" title="Ecton, Northamptonshire">Ecton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mears_Ashby" title="Mears Ashby">Mears Ashby</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sywell" title="Sywell">Sywell</a> which all appear in the <a href="/wiki/Daventry" title="Daventry">Daventry</a> constituency due to overlapping parliamentary and local government boundary reviews), Hatton, <a href="/wiki/Higham_Ferrers" title="Higham Ferrers">Higham Ferrers</a> Lancaster, Higham Ferrers Chichele, Irchester, Isebrook, Queensway, Redwell, Rixon, <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a> Hayden, Rushden Spencer, Rushden Bates, Rushden Sartoris, Rushden Pemberton, Swanspool, Victoria, and Wollaston.<sup id="cite_ref-Wellingborough_Con_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wellingborough_Con-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wellingborough is currently represented in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> by <a href="/wiki/Gen_Kitchen" title="Gen Kitchen">Gen Kitchen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918 general election</a> it became the first constituency in <a href="/wiki/Southern_England" title="Southern England">southern England</a> outside <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to be represented by the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a> in 2020, Wellingborough was represented by the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)">East Midlands constituency</a> in the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town is sited on the hills adjoining the flood plain of the <a href="/wiki/River_Nene" title="River Nene">River Nene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Geology_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Geology-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the predominantly agrarian <a href="/wiki/England_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="England in the Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Till" title="Till">boulder clay</a> or glacial <a href="/wiki/Till" title="Till">till</a> during the recent glaciations.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iron_ore">Iron ore</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Iron ore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most economically important aspect of the geology of the area is the <a href="/wiki/Northampton_Sand" class="mw-redirect" title="Northampton Sand">Northampton Sands</a> <a href="/wiki/Ironstone" title="Ironstone">ironstone</a> formation. This is a marine sand of <a href="/wiki/Jurassic" title="Jurassic">Jurassic</a> age (<a href="/wiki/Bajocian" title="Bajocian">Bajocian</a> stage), deposited as part of an estuary sequence and overlain by a sequence of limestones and mudrocks. Significant amounts of the sand have been replaced or displaced by iron minerals, giving an average ore grade of around 25 <a href="/wiki/Concentration#Mass_percentage_(fraction)" title="Concentration">wt%</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Bessemer_process" title="Bessemer process">Bessemer</a> steel-making process and the "<a href="/wiki/Basic_slag" class="mw-redirect" title="Basic slag">basic slag</a>" smelting chemistry, which combine to make high-quality steelmaking possible from these unprepossessing ores. The <a href="/wiki/Northampton_Sand_Formation" title="Northampton Sand Formation">Northampton Sands</a> were a strategic resource for the United Kingdom in the run-up to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, being the best-developed bulk iron-producing processes wholly free from dependence on imported materials. However, because the Northampton Sands share in the regional <a href="/wiki/Dip_slope" title="Dip slope">dip</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Iron ore quarrying was a major industry in and around Wellingborough from the 1860s until the 1960s. James Rixon and Wiliam Ashwell opened a major ironworks on the north side of the town in 1870, supplied by the extensive ironstone quarries around <a href="/wiki/Finedon" title="Finedon">Finedon</a> to the east of the town. Three <a href="/wiki/Narrow-gauge_railway" title="Narrow-gauge railway">narrow gauge</a> tramways served the iron ore industry, the <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_Tramway" title="Wellingborough Tramway">Wellingborough Tramway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neilson%27s_Tramway" title="Neilson's Tramway">Neilson's Tramway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Finedonhill_Tramway" title="Finedonhill Tramway">Finedonhill Tramway</a>. The Wellingborough Tramway served Rixon's ironworks until 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Quine_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quine-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellingborough experiences an <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>) which is similar to most of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Wellingborough, GBR </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13<br />(55) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14<br />(57) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17<br />(63) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20<br />(68) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(75) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(88) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(75) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(73) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17<br />(63) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14<br />(57) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">31<br />(88) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7<br />(45) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8<br />(46) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11<br />(52) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13<br />(55) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17<br />(63) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19<br />(66) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(72) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(73) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19<br />(66) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14<br />(57) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10<br />(50) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7<br />(45) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14<br />(58) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7<br />(45) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10<br />(50) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12<br />(54) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12<br />(54) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10<br />(50) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8<br />(46) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3<br />(37) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">7<br />(44) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #9595FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−15<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #A0A0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−13<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−8<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #CBCBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−5<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6<br />(43) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #B0B0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−10<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #9B9BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−14<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #9595FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−15<br />(5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> cm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.51<br />(1.78) </td> <td style="background: #C7C7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.39<br />(1.33) </td> <td style="background: #D4D4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.87<br />(1.13) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.39<br />(1.73) </td> <td style="background: #CACAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.49<br />(1.37) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.66<br />(1.83) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.21<br />(1.66) </td> <td style="background: #B9B9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.69<br />(1.85) </td> <td style="background: #AAAAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.49<br />(2.16) </td> <td style="background: #AAAAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.68<br />(2.24) </td> <td style="background: #B5B5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.8<br />(1.9) </td> <td style="background: #B4B4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.98<br />(1.96) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">53.16<br />(20.94) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compass">Compass</h3><span 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<td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="North"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Mears_Ashby" title="Mears Ashby">Mears Ashby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sywell" title="Sywell">Sywell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby,_Warwickshire" title="Rugby, Warwickshire">Rugby</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" 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title="Irthlingborough">Irthlingborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Higham_Ferrers" title="Higham Ferrers">Higham Ferrers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Great_Doddington" title="Great Doddington">Great Doddington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earls_Barton" title="Earls Barton">Earls Barton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckingham" title="Buckingham">Buckingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wilby,_Northamptonshire" title="Wilby, Northamptonshire">Wilby</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wollaston,_Northamptonshire" title="Wollaston, Northamptonshire">Wollaston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Irchester" title="Irchester">Irchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedford" title="Bedford">Bedford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellingborough's population expanded rapidly from the 1960s and 1970s as agreements were signed between the <a href="/wiki/Urban_district_(England_and_Wales)" title="Urban district (England and Wales)">Urban District Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_County_Council" title="London County Council">London County Council</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Council" title="Greater London Council">Greater London Council</a> for the town to re-house over-spill population from London. Following the <a href="/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom" title="Modern immigration to the United Kingdom">post World War II arrival of immigrants</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a> into Britain, a sizeable <a href="/wiki/Black_Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Caribbean">Black Caribbean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_India" title="Demographics of India">Indian</a>/<a href="/wiki/Pakistani_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistani people">Pakistani</a> community grew up in the market town, and now represents 11% of the town.<sup id="cite_ref-wellingborough.gov.uk_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wellingborough.gov.uk-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Housing">Housing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Housing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Housing_estates">Housing estates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Housing estates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellingborough is home to three medium-sized public <a href="/wiki/Housing_estate" title="Housing estate">housing estates</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hemmingwell" title="Hemmingwell">Hemmingwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queensway,_Wellingborough" title="Queensway, Wellingborough">Queensway</a> and Kingsway. Hemmingwell and Kingsway as well as a large portion of Queensway were built to re-house over-spill population from London. There are also smaller estates such as Spring Gardens and Knights Court. These estates account for a large part of the Wellingborough residence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg/220px-Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg/330px-Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg/440px-Northampton_6.04.2008_008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>The Swansgate Shopping Centre in 2008</figcaption></figure> <p>Wellingborough has approximately 2,500 registered businesses within its boundaries.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of the town centre was redeveloped during the 1970s, when it grew rapidly from London overspill. The <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough (borough)">Borough Council</a> has adopted a 'Town Centre Action Plan'.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The former traditional economic structure based on footwear and engineering is gradually diversifying with wholesale, logistics, and service sectors providing new opportunities for employment. </p><p>As a market town, Wellingborough has major high street chains mainly located in the town centre. The only shopping centre, <a href="/wiki/Swansgate" class="mw-redirect" title="Swansgate">Swansgate</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> previously known as the Arndale Centre, was built in the 1970s. Since 2009 the Borough Council has been looking at rebuilding the centre<sup id="cite_ref-TC_Mplan_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TC_Mplan-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and major stores want bigger floor-spaces.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Supplementing the town centre shops are several out-of-town retail parks and supermarkets. The town has a market three times a week and a weekly privately organised market.<sup id="cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wellingborough_Market-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other businesses operating within the town include motorsport, high performance engineering, distribution, engineering, environmental technology and renewable energy, digital and creative media, financial and business services, and global brands, once such brand being <a href="/wiki/Cummins_UK" title="Cummins UK">Cummins UK</a> at Park Farm and <a href="/wiki/Lok%27nStore" title="Lok'nStore">Lok'nStore Plc.</a> The revived incarnation of British electrical retailer <a href="/wiki/Comet_Group" title="Comet Group">Comet</a> is also based in the town. There are several industrial estates in the town, these include Park Farm,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Denington,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leyland<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Finedon Road.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Future developments</dt></dl> <p>As part of its Milton Keynes <a href="/wiki/South_Midlands" title="South Midlands">South Midlands</a> (MKSM) study, the government has identified Wellingborough as one of several towns in Northamptonshire into which growth will be directed over the next thirty years. It allocates 12,800 additional homes to Wellingborough, and will also create additional facilities, further improve the town centre, improve infrastructure and increase employment opportunities. A jobs growth target of 12,400 jobs has been set to accompany the large scale housing growth.<sup id="cite_ref-NNDC_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NNDC-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A plan for 3,000 homes north of the town has been accepted by the British Government after an appeal by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.beebeedevelopments.co.uk/">Bee Bee Developments</a>. The plan was first refused by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/">Wellingborough Borough Council</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200907132810/http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/">Archived</a> 7 September 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, plans have been made for a major urban extension in the town, mainly to the east of the railway station. When finished, the town would be around 30% larger and 3,200 new homes would be built on 'Stanton Cross' site, with new schools, bus stops, community centres, shops, a doctor's surgery and new open spaces.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_railway_station" title="Wellingborough railway station">railway station</a> would be developed into an 'interchange' with <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_in_Northants" class="mw-redirect" title="Stagecoach in Northants">local buses</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Trains" title="East Midlands Trains">trains</a>. The upgrade would provide a new platform, footbridge and new station buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-Station_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Station-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outside the station a new road bridge from Midland Road over the railway line is also planned with a new footbridge to reach the new development.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other plans to include the development of the High Street, Shelley Road and the north of the town areas are also being considered.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2021 development on two fields between Park Farm and the Queensway estate was underway with a mix of one to four-bedroom properties and much needed social housing for the town. The development will comprise 600 properties, including 180 affordable homes, education, health and sports facilities and dedicated open space. </p><p>Developer contributions to the town also include money towards the expansion of All Saints Primary School and a new secondary school at Stanton Cross. ECL was appointed as Principal Contractors for the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eclcivils.co.uk/groundworks/">Park Farm’s infrastructure and groundworks</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/A45_road" title="A45 road">A45 dual carriageway</a> skirting to the south, links the town with the <a href="/wiki/A14_road_(England)" title="A14 road (England)">A14</a>, and <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1</a> which also allows links to the east and west of the country. The A45 links Wellingborough with <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Higham_Ferrers" title="Higham Ferrers">Higham Ferrers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raunds" title="Raunds">Raunds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thrapston" title="Thrapston">Thrapston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oundle" title="Oundle">Oundle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg/220px-Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg/330px-Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg/440px-Wellingboroughstationbuilding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3664" data-file-height="2748" /></a><figcaption>Wellingborough station building</figcaption></figure> <p>The town is served by a bus network provided by <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_in_Northants" class="mw-redirect" title="Stagecoach in Northants">Stagecoach in Northants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Centrebus" title="Centrebus">Centrebus</a> with local Wellingborough buses the W1, W2 and W8 links the town centre (Church Street) with local suburbs and villages.<sup id="cite_ref-NorthantsWelEastNorth_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NorthantsWelEastNorth-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Departing every 30 minutes the X4 service also links the town with <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a>, Northampton, Kettering, <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a>, Oundle and Peterborough.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other routes include 44/45, X46 and X47.<sup id="cite_ref-NorthantsWelEastNorth_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NorthantsWelEastNorth-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Railway" title="East Midlands Railway">East Midlands Railway</a> operate direct trains to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">London St Pancras International</a> from <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_railway_station" title="Wellingborough railway station">Wellingborough railway station</a>, departing every 30 minutes, with an average journey time of around 55 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-EMT_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EMT-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The railway line also connects Wellingborough with <a href="/wiki/Bedford" title="Bedford">Bedford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>. Just north of the railway station is a <a href="/wiki/GB_Railfreight" title="GB Railfreight">GB Railfreight</a> location, usage is for <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a> maintenance and other freight services.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Platform 4 was rebuilt and opened in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several UK airports are within two hours' drive of the town, including <a href="/wiki/London_Luton_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="London Luton Airport">London Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Airport" title="East Midlands Airport">East Midlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Airport" title="Birmingham Airport">Birmingham</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Stansted_Airport" title="London Stansted Airport">London Stansted</a>. Luton can be reached directly by train while East Midlands and Stansted can be reached by one change at Leicester. <a href="/wiki/Sywell_Aerodrome" title="Sywell Aerodrome">Sywell Aerodrome</a>, located 5 miles northwest of Wellingborough, caters for <a href="/wiki/General_aviation" title="General aviation">private flying</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flight_training" title="Flight training">flight training</a> and corporate flights. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_North_Northamptonshire" title="List of schools in North Northamptonshire">List of schools in North Northamptonshire</a></div> <p>Fourteen government controlled primary schools feed the secondary schools that include: <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_School" title="Wellingborough School">Wellingborough School</a>, an independent, fee-paying school with a <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_School_CCF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough School CCF">cadet force</a>, and the state secondary schools of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Christopher_Hatton_Academy" title="Sir Christopher Hatton Academy">Sir Christopher Hatton Academy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weavers_Academy" title="Weavers Academy">Weavers Academy</a> (formerly the Technical Grammar School & then Weavers School), <a href="/wiki/Wrenn_School" title="Wrenn School">Wrenn School</a> (formerly the Wellingborough Grammar School) and also gives home to the local Sea Cadet Unit, and Friars School.<sup id="cite_ref-schools_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schools-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Tresham_College_of_Further_and_Higher_Education" title="Tresham College of Further and Higher Education">Tresham College of Further and Higher Education</a> has a campus in Wellingborough, as well as locations in <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It provides <a href="/wiki/Further_education" title="Further education">further education</a> and offers vocational courses.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In collaboration with several universities the college also offers Higher Education options.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Northampton" title="University of Northampton">University of Northampton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, with around 10,000 students on two campuses, offers courses from foundation and undergraduate levels to postgraduate, professional and doctoral qualifications. Subjects include traditional arts, humanities and sciences subjects, as well as entrepreneurship, product design and advertising.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cadet_Units">Cadet Units</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cadet Units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The D-Coy Corps of Drums of the Leicestershire, Northamtponshire and Rutland <a href="/wiki/Army_Cadet_Force" title="Army Cadet Force">Army Cadet Force</a> is based in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town also has its own <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Air_Cadets" title="Royal Air Force Air Cadets">Air Cadet</a> Squadron, 378 (Mannock) Squadron which is the only squadron in the corps to not be named after a geographical location, but after a person, <a href="/wiki/Mick_Mannock" title="Mick Mannock">Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock.</a><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg/220px-The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg/330px-The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg/440px-The_Castle_Theatre_in_Wellingborough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The Castle Theatre</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Castle_Theatre,_Wellingborough" title="The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough">The Castle Theatre</a></i> was opened in 1995 on the site of Wellingborough's old Cattle Market.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It brings not only a theatre to the area but other facilities for local people. Most rooms are used on a daily basis by the local community, users include the Castle Youth Theatre<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Youth Dance.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wellingborough has a public library in the corner of the market square.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Wellingborough Museum,<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an independent museum run by the Winifred Wharton Trust, located next door to <i>The Castle Theatre</i>, has exhibitions which show the past of Wellingborough and the surrounding villages. The museum is housed in a Victorian swimming pool ("Dulley's Baths") built in 1892, from 1918 to 1995 it was Cox's shoe factory. Accompanying the exhibitions and articles is a souvenir shop and café.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Local news and television programmes are provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_East" title="BBC East">BBC East</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Anglia" title="ITV Anglia">ITV Anglia</a>. Television signals are received from the <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Heath_transmitting_station" title="Sandy Heath transmitting station">Sandy Heath</a> TV transmitter.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town’s local radio stations are <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Northampton" title="BBC Radio Northampton">BBC Radio Northampton</a> on 104.2 FM, <a href="/wiki/Heart_East" title="Heart East">Heart East</a> on 96.6 FM and <a href="/wiki/Smooth_East_Midlands" title="Smooth East Midlands">Smooth East Midlands</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Connect_Radio_97.2_%26_107.4" title="Connect Radio 97.2 & 107.4">Connect FM</a>) on 97.2 FM. </p><p>Local newspapers are the <a href="/wiki/Northampton_Herald_%26_Post" title="Northampton Herald & Post">Northampton Herald & Post</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Northamptonshire Telegraph">Northamptonshire Telegraph</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellingborough is home to two football clubs: <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_Town_F.C." title="Wellingborough Town F.C.">Wellingborough Town</a><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_Whitworth_F.C." title="Wellingborough Whitworth F.C.">Wellingborough Whitworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 14 April 1928 a short lived, small independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body) <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom">greyhound racing</a> track was opened around the football pitch at the Dog and Duck Ground.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009 the town's rugby club was the first club to be awarded the RFU Whole Club Seal of Approval in the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands">East Midlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Great_Harrowden#Great_Harrowden_Hall" title="Great Harrowden">Harrowden Hall</a>, a 17th-century building in <a href="/wiki/Great_Harrowden" title="Great Harrowden">Great Harrowden</a> village just on the outskirts of the town, is the clubhouse of a privately owned golf course.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The four leisure centres and health clubs in Wellingborough include <a href="/wiki/Bannatyne_(company)" title="Bannatyne (company)">Bannatyne</a>, Redwell, Waendel and Weavers (which is part of Weavers school).<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wellingborough was also served for many years by Club Diana. Club Diana was closed by administrators on 1 June 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However it has now been reopened and is available once again. It has a swimming pool, 5 squash courts and a bar and restaurant. </p><p>The Waendel Leisure Centre is the main council-owned leisure centre in Wellingborough. The facility includes a six-lane 25-metre competition pool, varying in depth from 1 to 2 metres, and used for many purposes including the main training pool for Wellingborough Amateur Swimming Club. The pool is regularly used for small competitions, as other than <a href="/wiki/Corby_East_Midlands_International_Swimming_Pool" class="mw-redirect" title="Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool">Corby Pool</a> it is the only other aptly equipped facility – boasting new starting blocks, as well as an integrated timing system and time board. The pool also has a small, shallow, 'teaching' pool, more suitable for non-swimmers. Waendel also operates a newly refurbished gym on the upper level.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Waendel and Redwell Leisure Centres are both owned by <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_Borough_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough Borough Council">Wellingborough Borough Council</a>, however are operated on their behalf by <a href="/wiki/Places_for_People" title="Places for People">Places for People</a>. Waendel pool is currently in need of urgent repairs due to tiles coming away from the pool floor.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wellingborough Phoenix is one of the United Kingdom's largest basketball clubs; the men's first team currently play in EBL Division 3 and the women play in EBL Division 2. Youth teams also play in the EBL; ages ranging from u13 to u16.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the second weekend in May, the annual non-competitive <i>Waendel Walk</i> is held in Wellingborough, with a variety of routes through the local countryside. The walk is affiliated to the <a href="/wiki/International_Marching_League" class="mw-redirect" title="International Marching League">International Marching League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services">Services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg/220px-Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg/330px-Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg/440px-Isebrook_Hospital_in_Wellingborough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The entrance of Isebrook Hospital</figcaption></figure> <p>Several <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">NHS</a> centres provide health care facilities, with Isebrook Hospital being equipped for procedures such as large X-Rays and neurological investigations, and long-term care, that are not catered for by primary care surgeries. Accident & Emergency (A&E), maternity,<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and surgical issues are mainly covered by <a href="/wiki/Kettering_General_Hospital" title="Kettering General Hospital">Kettering General Hospital</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Air_Ambulance" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Ambulance">Air Ambulance</a> is provided by Warkshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance service.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A petition signed by thousands of local residents in the towns of Wellingborough and Rushden for a new A&E to be built in Wellingborough has been handed to <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a> (when Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a> was in power), by local MP <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bone" title="Peter Bone">Peter Bone</a> on 10 February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Five_Wells_Prison" title="Five Wells Prison">Five Wells Prison</a> is based in Wellingborough. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_silver_ladies.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Three_silver_ladies.jpg/200px-Three_silver_ladies.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Three_silver_ladies.jpg/300px-Three_silver_ladies.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Three_silver_ladies.jpg/400px-Three_silver_ladies.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption>Sculpture: <i>Three Silver Ladies</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The railway station is a Grade II Listed building, and among the many unusual and other listed buildings in Wellingborough is the 600-year-old Grade I listed steeple that forms part of <a href="/wiki/All_Hallows_Church,_Wellingborough" title="All Hallows Church, Wellingborough">All Hallows Church</a>. </p><p><i>The Three Silver Ladies</i> is one of two identical sculptures installed on the Harrowden Road, They depict local Roman history, the river, and the townspeople working together.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the west of the town centre is the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Sacred_Heart_Church,_Wellingborough" title="Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Wellingborough">Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church</a> which according to <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a> has "highly original details," and a "lavishly finished interior."<sup id="cite_ref-stock_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stock-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg/160px-David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg/240px-David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg/320px-David_Frost_Rumsfeld_interview_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="679" data-file-height="869" /></a><figcaption>Sir <a href="/wiki/David_Frost" title="David Frost">David Frost</a> attended Wellingborough Grammar School.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Paul_Pindar" title="Sir Paul Pindar">Sir Paul Pindar</a> (1565–1650), Ambassador of <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">King James I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Bull_(minister)" title="William Bull (minister)">William Bull</a> (1738–1814), an English independent minister.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Clarke_(physician,_1761%E2%80%931815)" title="John Clarke (physician, 1761–1815)">John Clarke</a> (1761–1815), physician and obstetrician.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Askham" title="John Askham">John Askham</a> (1825–1894), a working class poet who published five volumes of poetry.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Crane_Perrin" title="Harry Crane Perrin">Harry Crane Perrin</a> (1865– 1953), a cathedral organist at <a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Cathedral" title="Canterbury Cathedral">Canterbury Cathedral</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Dobbs" title="Alfred Dobbs">Alfred Dobbs</a> (1882–1945), politician and trade unionist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Mees" title="Kenneth Mees">Kenneth Mees</a> (1882–1960), scientist and photographic researcher.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._H._Gravely" title="F. H. Gravely">F. H. Gravely</a> (1885–1965), an <a href="/wiki/Arachnologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Arachnologist">Arachnologist</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Allen_(Labour_politician)" title="Arthur Allen (Labour politician)">Arthur Allen</a> (1887–1981), footwear manufacturer, trade union and politician.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mick_Mannock" title="Mick Mannock">Mick Mannock</a>, (1887–1918), RAF Flying Ace and <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a> recipient.</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/David_Frost" title="David Frost">David Frost</a> (1939–2013), Broadcaster<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Binley" title="Brian Binley">Brian Binley</a> (1942–2020), politician and local MP.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Quarrie" title="Bruce Quarrie">Bruce Quarrie</a> (1947–2004), writer and author on wargaming, lived locally.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Elboz" title="Stephen Elboz">Stephen Elboz</a> (born 1956), writer of children's books.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Murray_(whisky_writer)" title="Jim Murray (whisky writer)">Jim Murray</a> (born 1957), writer, journalist and whisky critic.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Murphy_(musician)" title="Peter Murphy (musician)">Peter Murphy</a> (born 1957), lead vocalist of <a href="/wiki/Goth_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Goth rock">Goth rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thom_Yorke" title="Thom Yorke">Thom Yorke</a> (born 1968), lead singer and songwriter of the rock band <a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Pursglove" title="Tom Pursglove">Tom Pursglove</a> (born 1988), politician, grew up locally; junior minister and MP for <a href="/wiki/Corby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Corby (UK Parliament constituency)"> Corby</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DanTDM" title="DanTDM">Daniel Robert Middleton</a> (born 1991), YouTuber and professional gamer, known as <i>DanTDM</i>.</li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg/160px-Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg/240px-Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg/320px-Cliff_Lazarenko.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1630" data-file-height="2517" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Lazarenko" title="Cliff Lazarenko">Cliff Lazarenko</a>, 1985</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport_2">Sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Neil">Anita Neil</a> (born 1950), first Black British female Olympian.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Lazarenko" title="Cliff Lazarenko">Cliff Lazarenko</a> (born 1952), darts player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Iliffe" title="Marc Iliffe">Marc Iliffe</a> (1972–2003), strongman, died locally</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Ebdon" title="Peter Ebdon">Peter Ebdon</a> (born 1970), snooker player.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rory_McLeod_(snooker_player)" title="Rory McLeod (snooker player)">Rory McLeod</a> (born 1971), snooker player.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Benjamin" title="Trevor Benjamin">Trevor Benjamin</a> (born 1979), footballer, played 396 games</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_towns">Twin towns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Twin towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellingborough is <a href="/wiki/Town_twinning" class="mw-redirect" title="Town twinning">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Niort" title="Niort">Niort</a>, France (1977)<sup id="cite_ref-twin_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-twin-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wittlich" title="Wittlich">Wittlich</a>, Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-twin_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-twin-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Wellingborough also has relations with <a href="/wiki/Willingboro" class="mw-redirect" title="Willingboro">Willingboro</a>, township in <a href="/wiki/Burlington_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Burlington County">Burlington County</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-twin_96-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-twin-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wellingborough&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px 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Vol. 2. J. and P. Knapton.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=England%27s+Gazetteer&rft.pub=J.+and+P.+Knapton&rft.date=1751&rft.aulast=Whatley&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl">Google Maps: Wellingborough</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091107191317/http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&tab=wl">Archived</a> 7 November 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 29 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Geology-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Geology_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Geology_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Environ/planning/planapps/Documents/PDF%20Documents/Minerals%20and%20Waste%20Apps/15%20Chelveston%20-%20Northants%20Landscape%20Character%20Assessment%20XV%20(PDF%20Format%203.29MB).pdf">Northamptonshire flood plains</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110927160129/http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Environ/planning/planapps/Documents/PDF%20Documents/Minerals%20and%20Waste%20Apps/15%20Chelveston%20-%20Northants%20Landscape%20Character%20Assessment%20XV%20(PDF%20Format%203.29MB).pdf">Archived</a> 27 September 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 28 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMills,_David2011" class="citation book cs1">Mills, David (2011). <i>A Dictionary of British Place Names</i>. Oxford: the University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199609086" title="Special:BookSources/9780199609086"><bdi>9780199609086</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Dictionary+of+British+Place+Names&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=the+University+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9780199609086&rft.au=Mills%2C+David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wellingborough_Market-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wellingborough_Market_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=123&pageNumber=1">Wellingborough Market</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110615103107/http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=123&pageNumber=1">Archived</a> 15 June 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 28 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://citypopulation.de/en/uk/cities/englandua/?cityid=10824">"United Kingdom: Countries and Major Urban Areas – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=United+Kingdom%3A+Countries+and+Major+Urban+Areas+%E2%80%93+Population+Statistics%2C+Maps%2C+Charts%2C+Weather+and+Web+Information&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcitypopulation.de%2Fen%2Fuk%2Fcities%2Fenglandua%2F%3Fcityid%3D10824&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.explorenorthamptonshire.co.uk/exec/112345/6083/">Explore Northamptonshire: About Wellingborough</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312065648/http://www.explorenorthamptonshire.co.uk/exec/112345/6083/">Archived</a> 12 March 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 28 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Browne_(physician)" title="Joseph Browne (physician)">Joseph Browne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b30459709/page/112/mode/2up"><i>Theo. Turquet Mayernii Opera medica: Formulae Annae & Mariae</i> (London, 1703), pp. 112–6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wards-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-wards_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-wards_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/site/scripts/councillors.php?viewBy=ward">The Borough Council of Wellingborough: Councillors by Wards</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090302234442/http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/site/scripts/councillors.php?viewBy=ward">Archived</a> 2 March 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 7 July 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://allhallowswellingborough.com/Welcome.aspx">All Hallows Church</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828185337/http://www.allhallowswellingborough.com/Welcome.aspx">Archived</a> 28 August 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 23 August 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://crowlandabbey.org.uk/">Crowland Abbey</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070823103608/http://crowlandabbey.org.uk/">Archived</a> 23 August 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 21 August 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://allhallowswellingborough.com/aboutus.aspx">All Hallows Church: History</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090728004546/http://allhallowswellingborough.com/aboutus.aspx">Archived</a> 28 July 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 26 February 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pevsner-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Pevsner_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPevsner,_NikolausCherry,_Bridget1961" class="citation book cs1">Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1961). <i>The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire</i>. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 451. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-09632-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-09632-3"><bdi>978-0-300-09632-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Buildings+of+England+%E2%80%93+Northamptonshire&rft.place=London+and+New+Haven&rft.pages=451&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=1961&rft.isbn=978-0-300-09632-3&rft.au=Pevsner%2C+Nikolaus&rft.au=Cherry%2C+Bridget&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://architectdesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-marys-wellingborough.html">Architect Design: St Mary's Wellingborough</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110708023640/http://architectdesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-marys-wellingborough.html">Archived</a> 8 July 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 23 August 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHistoric_England1286782" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286782?section=official-list-entry">"The Golden Hind Hotel (1286782)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_List_for_England" title="National Heritage List for England">National Heritage List for England</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 June</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=National+Heritage+List+for+England&rft.atitle=The+Golden+Hind+Hotel+%281286782%29&rft.au=Historic+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2FHistoricEngland.org.uk%2Flisting%2Fthe-list%2Flist-entry%2F1286782%3Fsection%3Dofficial-list-entry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.northamptonshireheritage.co.uk/learn/historical-events-and-movements/Pages/the-second-world-war.aspx">"Enjoy Northamptonshire's Heritage: The Second World War"</a>. Northamptonshire County Council. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826150323/http://www.northamptonshireheritage.co.uk/learn/historical-events-and-movements/Pages/the-second-world-war.aspx">Archived</a> from the original on 26 August 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 August</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Enjoy+Northamptonshire%27s+Heritage%3A+The+Second+World+War&rft.pub=Northamptonshire+County+Council&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northamptonshireheritage.co.uk%2Flearn%2Fhistorical-events-and-movements%2FPages%2Fthe-second-world-war.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Northamptonshire/WellingboroughAirRaid3Aug1942.html">"Roll of Honour: Northamptonshire – article in the Mercury & Herald Northampton, 7 August 1942"</a>. British Legion. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826150259/http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Northamptonshire/WellingboroughAirRaid3Aug1942.html">Archived</a> from the original on 26 August 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 August</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Roll+of+Honour%3A+Northamptonshire+%E2%80%93+article+in+the+Mercury+%26+Herald+Northampton%2C+7+August+1942&rft.pub=British+Legion&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roll-of-honour.com%2FNorthamptonshire%2FWellingboroughAirRaid3Aug1942.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-London_Rd-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-London_Rd_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wellingborough_london_road/index.shtml">"Subterranea Britannica: Wellingborough London Road"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100614190424/http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wellingborough_london_road/index.shtml">Archived</a> from the original on 14 June 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 June</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Subterranea+Britannica%3A+Wellingborough+London+Road&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disused-stations.org.uk%2Fw%2Fwellingborough_london_road%2Findex.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRadford,_B1983" class="citation book cs1">Radford, B (1983). <i>Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby</i>. London: Bloomsbury Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Midland+Line+Memories%3A+a+Pictorial+History+of+the+Midland+Railway+Main+Line+Between+London+%28St+Pancras%29+%26+Derby&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Books&rft.date=1983&rft.au=Radford%2C+B&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=69">Railway Archive: Wellingborough Rail Crash</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100716170238/http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=69">Archived</a> 16 July 2010 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Retrieved 24 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Northants Evening Telegraph</i>, 'Millennium Memories', Saturday 1 January 2000, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9502845-1-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9502845-1-3">0-9502845-1-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-48270222">"Northamptonshire: Unitary authorities plan approved"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 14 May 2019. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200603042017/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-48270222">Archived</a> from the original on 3 June 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Northamptonshire%3A+Unitary+authorities+plan+approved&rft.date=2019-05-14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fuk-england-northamptonshire-48270222&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/last-northamptonshires-new-unitary-councils-are-made-law-parliament-1741568">"AT LAST! Northamptonshire's new unitary councils are made law by parliament"</a>. Northampton Chronicle. 14 February 2020. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210529204804/https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/last-northamptonshires-new-unitary-councils-are-made-law-parliament-1741568">Archived</a> from the original on 29 May 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=AT+LAST%21+Northamptonshire%27s+new+unitary+councils+are+made+law+by+parliament&rft.pub=Northampton+Chronicle&rft.date=2020-02-14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northamptonchron.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Flast-northamptonshires-new-unitary-councils-are-made-law-parliament-1741568&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wellingboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk/">"Home page"</a>. <i>Wellingborough Town Council</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 July</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Wellingborough+Town+Council&rft.atitle=Home+page&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wellingboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/events/event/1653/wellingborough_town_council_information_sessions">"Wellingborough Town Council information sessions"</a>. Borough Council of Wellingborough. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210529204805/https://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/events/event/1653/wellingborough_town_council_information_sessions">Archived</a> from the original on 29 May 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Wellingborough+Town+Council+information+sessions&rft.pub=Borough+Council+of+Wellingborough&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wellingborough.gov.uk%2Fevents%2Fevent%2F1653%2Fwellingborough_town_council_information_sessions&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWellingborough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wellingboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk/the-mayor/">"The Mayor"</a>. <i>Wellingborough Town Council</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Borough Council of Wellingborough. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170511091656/http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/info/100009/leisure_and_culture/1258/international_waendel_walk_2017">Archived</a> from the original on 11 May 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved 2 March 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoodjohn2010" class="citation news cs1">Goodjohn, Bernie (10 February 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.northantset.co.uk/wellingborough/Petition-handed-over-for-hospital.6058445.jp">"Petition handed over for hospital"</a>. <i>Northants Evening Telegraph</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100218203018/http://www.northantset.co.uk/wellingborough/Petition-handed-over-for-hospital.6058445.jp">Archived</a> from the original on 18 February 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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