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- In the Middle Ages, the town rose to national significance with the establishment of Northampton Castle, an occasional royal residence which regularly hosted the Parliament of England. Medieval Northampton had many churches, monasteries and the University of Northampton, all enclosed by the town walls.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Originating about 1100 as a walled town with a castle on the River Nene, Northampton was granted its first charter in 1189. The town walls survived until the Restoration (1660) after the English Civil Wars; they were then demolished because Northampton had sided with Parliament and against the king. The railway station now occupies the site of ...
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- Introduction and Sources
- Relief and Geology
- The Prehistoric Period
- The Roman Period
- The Saxon Period
- Medieval Northampton
- After The Dissolution
The area covered by the present volume, the modern District or Borough of Northampton,comprises a large part of the Upper Nene basin (Maps 1, 3). It is in many ways archaeologically andhistorically an artificially small area, yet it has been a focus for several thousand years for thesurrounding countryside and the restricted geographical area of st...
The Upper Nene basin comprises a broad valley bottom between 50 metres and 60 metres above sealevel with ground rising gradually on either side to a maximum of c. 125 metres above sea level; anumber of tributary streams cut the higher ground to join the Nene itself. The alluvial flood plain isdamp but the surrounding land is well-drained with exten...
Palaeolithic Remains (Map 4) The evidence concerning palaeolithic material in the Northampton region, as elsewhere, is of adifferent order from that for later periods of prehistory, not least because it is largely derived fromgeologically disturbed and insecurely dated deposits such as river gravels. It is, therefore,considered here separately befo...
Northamptonshire has never been regarded as one of the most prosperous areas of Roman Britain.It does not include a civitas capital or major urban centre and few high quality villas, such as arefound in the Cotswolds, the Chilterns and elsewhere (cf. Rivet. 1969, 213, Fig. 5.7), have beenlocated in the area. Yet extensive fieldwork, particularly in...
There are considerable problems in defining the development of settlement patterns in the Saxonperiod in Northampton, as elsewhere, but the intensive work at the west end of the town, in thearea around St. Peter's Church, has yielded most important results. A major middle Saxon palacecomplex has been uncovered and fairly extensive settlement remain...
From 1066 to 1200 The period from the Norman Conquest up to the end of the 12th century was one of consolidation,expansion and prosperity for Northampton. During this time it grew from a well-established yetmiddling shire town into one of the great centres of England. In Domesday Book between 291 and301 houses and 36 waste plots are listed (DB, f. ...
This essay is primarily concerned with the topographical development of the Northampton area upto c. 1540, although the architectural studies of the churches embrace all periods up to the presentday. The following few paragraphs attempt to outline the later development of the town. After the Dissolution Northampton continued as a provincial market ...
Northampton town wall and defences. The wall was built by the 1st Earl of Northampton, Simon de senlis I, between 1090-1111. Grants of murage were made in 1224, 1251, and 1301, the latter so large that it suggests a rebuild rather than repair.
Sep 23, 2024 · The Prior of St. Andrew's, a Frenchman, whose priory occupied the north-west angle of the town fortifications, facilitated the entry of the King's troops through a breach in the garden wall, and the town was taken and sacked ruthlessly by the Royalists, who, according to Wykes, reduced a most flourishing town to a most wretched state.
Apr 20, 2019 · The town was rebuilt and in 1725, its new appearance inspired author Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) to describe Northampton as the “handsomest and best built town in all this part of England…..finely rebuilt with brick and stone, and the streets made spacious and wide”.
5 days ago · It would also seem reasonable that, although no wall was present in Speed's day on the W. side of the town, there had in medieval times been such a wall, for it is hardly conceivable that the minor stream of the northern water of the Nene, although described as a 'river parted into many streams', would have been regarded as adequate defence for ...
The Nene Navigation Company had previously made the River Nene navigable from King's Lynn as far up as Northampton in 1762, allowing cheap transportation of coal and other goods to the town, but in 1815, the Grand Union Canal reached the town, joining the River Nene, giving the town a direct link to the Midlands coalfields and to Birmingham ...
