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Kettering in Northampton County England History and GeographyKETTERING, a market town and parish in the hundred of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 15 miles (N.E. by N.) from Northampton, and 75 (N.W.) from London, on the high road from London to Leeds, containing 3668 inhabitants. The Saxon name of this town was Cytringham, the etymology of which is uncertain. At the Norman survey the manor and church belonged to the abbey of Burgh, or Peterborough, and continued in the possession of that house until the dissolution. The town, which is but indifferently built, is situated on the declivity of a hill, at the foot of which flows a small stream, that joins the Ice brook, a branch of the river Nen. The market-place is a spacious area, surrounded by good private houses and respectable shops. A reading-society, or book-club, has been established for half a century; and another has recently been formed, for the middling and lower classes of the inhabitants. The manufacture of shoes has been carried on for many years, affording employment to a considerable number of persons: wool stapling and combing, and the spinning of worsted yarn, are extensively pursued; the weaving of silk shag for hats has been recently introduced, and a few persons are employed in the weaving of ribands and Persians: there are also two brush manufactories. The market is on Friday; and fairs are held on the Thursday before Easter, Friday before Whit-Sunday, Thursday before Old Michaelmasday, and the Thursday before the festival of St. Thomas. Courts leet and baron are held annually for the appointment of constables and other officers'; and the petty sessions for Kettering division are holden usually once a fortnight. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £34. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Sondes. The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, is a handsome edifice in the later style of English architecture, with a fine tower at the west end, having double buttresses, and octagonal turrets at the angles, and surmounted by an octagonal crocketed spire: round the base of the spire, and connected with the angular turrets, is an embattled parapet, enclosing a walk which commands an extensive and beautiful prospect. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. A free grammar school for poor children of this parish is endowed with land producing about £120 per annum, the benefaction of a person unknown. There is likewise a small charity school for girls; and a National school is supported by voluntary contributions. An hospital for six poor widows was founded by Mr. Sawyer, in 1688, and subsequently endowed by Martha Baker and others. Mrs. Rachael Sawyer bequeathed £100, directing the interest to be applied in apprenticing poor children; and there are several other bequests for charitable purposes. In 1726, several coins were discovered here of Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine, and other Roman emperors; also of Carausius, who assumed the purple in Britain; together with a brass seal having the figure of St. Michael engraved on it, and other antique remains. Dr. John Gill, an eminent oriental and biblical scholar, was born here in 1697. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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