VCH Northamptonshire Publications

Edited by W. Ryland, D. Adkins and R. M. Serjeantson, this volume was published in 1902.

• Natural History
• Early Man
• Romano-British Remains
• Anglo-Saxon Remains
• Introduction to the Northamptonshire Domesday
• Text of the Northamptonshire Domesday
• The Northamptonshire Survey
• Monumental Effigies
• Domesday Index

The full text is available via the Internet Archive.

Edited by the Revd R.M. Serjeantson and W. Ryland D. Adkins. 

• Ecclesiastical History
• Religious Houses
• Early Christian Art
• Schools
• Industries
• Forestry
• Sport Ancient and Modern
• Ancient Earthworks

The volume also includes the following topographical entries by Mary Bateson:

• Soke of Peterborough
• Willybrook Hundred

The entries for the medieval religious houses are on British History Online.

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Edited by William Page this volume was published in 1930.

The volume gives accounts of the parishes of Huxloe, Polebrook and Navisford hundreds, as well as the boroughs of Higham Ferrers and Northampton.

This volume is on British History Online.

Edited by L.F. Salzman, this volume was published in 1937.

The volume covers the parishes in the hundreds of Hamfordshoe, Higham Ferrers, Orlingbury, Spelhoe and Wymersley, in the central part of the county. It includes an account of the parish of Wellingborough.

This volume is on British History Online.

Edited by Philip Riden and Charles Insley this volume was published in 2002.

This volume, the first to be published for Northamptonshire since 1937, deals with a group of a dozen parishes in the south of the county, on either side of Watling Street between Towcester and Stony Stratford. Essentially a group of typical Midland open-field parishes, the main interest of the area lies in the creation of a great royal estate, the honor of Grafton, in 1542, which occupied about half the hundred. In 1706 the honor passed to the second Duke of Grafton under a grant made by his grandfather, Charles II. The dukes remained the principal owners in the district until a series of sales just after the First World War. Researched with the thoroughness for which the Victoria County History has long been well known, and illustrated with numerous maps and plates, this volume will be of great interest to local residents who wish to know about the past history of their community, and also to a wide range of academic readers, especially historians interested in landed estates between the sixteenth and the twenty-first century.

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Edited by Charles Insley, this volume was published in 2007.

This volume covers the history of its industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including, of course, its most celebrated products: boots and shoes. Particular attention is given to the impact of industrial development upon the infrastructure, topography and environment of the county.

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Edited by Mark Page and Matthew Bristow, with contributions from Cynthia Brown, this volume was published in 2013.

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 remained agricultural 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 to concentrate 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 inexorably drawn into the expanding new town as it spread southwards, eventually being incorporated firstly into Corby urban district in1967 and in 1993 into Corby Borough.
Although Corby is perhaps best known for the social problems or "New Town Blues" that blighted it after the steelworks (the town's principal employer) closed in 1980, this volume documents the lesser known medieval and early modern history of Corby and Great Oakley; it shows how generations of inhabitants utilised the rich natural geology and the abundant woodland to supplement the local agrarian economy, before examining in detail Corby's industrialisation, physical and economic growth, post-industrial decline and 21st-century regeneration.
 

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