25 Facts About Daventry Northamptonshire

Daventry Northamptonshire sits on the watershed of the River Leam which flows to Leamington Spa, Warwick and the west of England and the River Nene which flows east.

Daventry Northamptonshire has several housing estates, which include: Drayton, Middlemore Farm, Lang Farm, Ashby Fields, Royal Oak, Timken, Stefen Hill, The Grange, The Southbrook, The Headlands and most recently Monksmoor Park.

Small historic core of Daventry Northamptonshire, centred on High Street, Market Place, New Street, Sheaf Street and their surrounding streets is a conservation area, with most of its buildings dating from the 17th to 19th centuries including many listed buildings.

Daventry Northamptonshire was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Daventrei.

Daventry Northamptonshire, being located on the main roads linking London with the West Midlands, Holyhead and Lancashire, flourished as a coaching town.

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At the zenith of the coaching era in the 1830s, Daventry Northamptonshire had become a major hub of the national network, with more than 250 coaches passing through the town every week, including services between London, Warwick, Birmingham, Liverpool and Holyhead, and Birmingham and Cambridge.

Industrial Revolution largely passed Daventry Northamptonshire by, owing to its failure to become linked to the newer transport networks: The Grand Junction Canal had opened in 1796, and passed a few miles north of Daventry Northamptonshire.

An arm from the canal to Daventry Northamptonshire was proposed, and was included in the Act of Parliament authorising it, however this was never built.

Daventry Northamptonshire was chosen because it was the point of maximum contact with the land mass of England and Wales.

In 1961, Daventry Northamptonshire was designated as an 'overspill' to house people and industry relocated from Birmingham, as government policy of the time favoured moving population and industry away from Birmingham.

In 1995 RAF Daventry Northamptonshire was listed as a USAF communication facility by the then Minister of State for the Armed Forces Nicholas Soames in answer to a question from Max Madden.

RAF Daventry Northamptonshire is most likely the transmitter base at a former WW1 isolation hospital site on the Staverton to Newnham road which was eventually sold by the Ministry of Defence in 2007.

In 2007, Daventry Northamptonshire began plans to modernise the town with a futuristic personal rapid transit system that would link outer estates to the town centre, and a canal arm with marina next to the former site of the outdoor pool.

From 1576 until 1974, Daventry Northamptonshire had been a borough: The ancient borough of Daventry Northamptonshire, created in 1576 was reconstituted as a municipal borough in 1835.

In 2021 the Daventry District was itself abolished and merged into the even larger unitary authority of West Northamptonshire.

From 1974, the area of the former borough of Daventry Northamptonshire became an unparished area with charter trustees until 2003, when Daventry Northamptonshire became a civil parish and gained its own Town Council.

Daventry Northamptonshire is represented in Parliament by the Daventry Northamptonshire Parliamentary constituency, which is a safe Conservative seat, the MP representing the seat since 2010 has been Chris Heaton-Harris.

Daventry Northamptonshire is near the M1 motorway with access to two junctions: 18 to the northeast and 16 to the southeast of the town.

Villages without a regular connection to Daventry Northamptonshire had a bookable County Connect bus service run by Centrebus under a County Council contract until 1 September 2014 when the operator changed to Kier Fleet Passenger Services.

All subsidies for bus services in Daventry Northamptonshire have been discontinued due to financial mismanagement at Daventry Northamptonshire County Council meaning most of these bus services will end.

Nearest railway station to Daventry Northamptonshire today is Long Buckby railway station about 4 miles northeast, where West Midlands Trains provide services via the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line, northbound to Rugby and stations to Birmingham New Street, and southbound to Northampton and stations to London Euston.

Daventry Northamptonshire once had its own railway station on the former London and North Western Railway branch-line from Weedon to Leamington Spa, which opened in 1888 and was closed on 15 September 1958 and is demolished.

Daventry Northamptonshire is one of the largest towns in England without its own railway station.

Today, Daventry Northamptonshire has two secondary schools: The Parker E-ACT Academy to the north of the town and Danetre and Southbrook Learning Village to the east, near the BBC transmitter, both with thriving sixth-forms and the Daventry Northamptonshire campus of Northampton College.

Many children from Daventry Northamptonshire are enrolled with the surrounding village schools, such as Byfield, Badby, Newnham, Woodford Halse, Barby and Welton.

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