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A History of the County of Northampton, Volume VII: Corby and Great Oakley

A History of the County of Northampton, Volume VII: Corby and Great Oakley

Page, Mark
Bristow, Matthew
Brown, Cynthia

Hardcover

Series: Victoria County History

British History

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ISBN10: 1904356370
ISBN13: 9781904356370
Publisher: Victoria County History
Published: Jul 18 2013
Pages: 264
Weight: 2.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 12.00 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Comprehensive and authoritative history of Corby and Great Oakley, charting their growth and development from the early medieval period to the present day.

Lying in north Northamptonshire, close to the borders with Leicestershire and Rutland, the neighbouring parishes of Corby and Great Oakley were formerly part of the ancient administrative division of Corby hundred. Both remainedagricultural villages, typical of much of rural Northamptonshire before 1932 when the landscape of the area was dramatically altered by large-scale industrialisation associated with the production of iron and steel following the discovery of rich ironstone deposits to the north and east of Corby village. Corby was most directly affected by these changes, with the parish experiencing a dramatic rise in population after the Stewarts & Lloyds Company chose toconcentrate their entire steel producing operation there. Between 1932 and 1950, the increasing population resulted in the hasty construction, firstly by the Stewarts & Lloyds Company and later by the Corby UDC, of housing estates on former agricultural land adjacent to the steelworks, before Corby was designated a New Town in April 1950 and responsibility for it passed to the Corby Development Corporation. From this point on, Great Oakley was inexorablydrawn into the expanding new town as it spread southwards, eventually being incorporated firstly into Corby urban district in1967 and in 1993 into Corby Borough.

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