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- In 1227 Kettering was made into a small market town. In that year the king allowed it to have weekly markets. (In the Middle Ages there were few shops and usually, if you wanted to buy or sell something you had to go to a market. Afterward, Kettering was a flourishing settlement but to us, it would seem tiny with a population of only about 1,200.
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Like most of what later became Northamptonshire, from early in the 1st century BC the Kettering area became part of the territory of the Catuvellauni, a Belgic tribe, the Northamptonshire area forming their most northerly possession.
Mar 14, 2021 · Kettering began as an Anglo-Saxon village. Its name was Ketter ingas, which means the people of Ketter. Kettering was first mentioned in history in the year 956. Then in 972, the manor of Kettering was granted to the abbey at Peterborough.
Nov 11, 2008 · 1974 when the Borough as we know it today was formed from the Urban District Council, Rural District Council and the Towns and Parishes - something to reflect the nature of the Borough Towns, villages and rural areas - accepted this isn't the town itself but the Borough does carry the name Kettering - appreciated this is Borough rather than Town
Article History. Kettering, England: Rushton Hall. Rushton Hall, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Kettering, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. From the 17th century Kettering was a centre for the production of woolen cloth and later of silk and plush.
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A new history of this Northamptonshire town, which has too often been overlooked. The author, one of the county’s foremost historians, traces the town’s fortunes, from its 18th-century weaving industy. The industry faltered, and Kettering, where the Baptist Missionary Society was founded in 1792, became a centre of religious dissent. Its connection in 1857 to […]
Feb 7, 2021 · Dickens’s orphanage in Oliver Twist was eventually to be based in a small town 75 miles from London - perhaps not coincidentally the same distance as Kettering is from London.
Kettering can trace its name origins back to an early Romano-British settlement to the north of the present town an Anglo-Saxon settlement possibly to the east of the medieval village. It is in the mid-tenth century that we have our first historical reference to Kettering in a charter of 956 AD in which King Edwy granted ten "cassati" of land ...
