During that period he won the Oundle division of Northamptonshire County Council, and served as County Councillor from 1981 to 1985.

Warwickshire started the 2006 season by playing Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton where the Bears won by 24 runs.

Three current first class counties have never won the County Championship: Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Somerset.

In 2006, Worcestershire won promotion to the first division of the Championship on the last day of the season by beating Northamptonshire while their rivals for second promotion spot, Essex, lost to Leicestershire.

In 1969, 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2011, Helmdon won the Northamptonshire Village of the Year competition.

Harvey contracted swine flu which meant he could not play in the quarter finals which Northamptonshire won.

The game began in April 2005, and was won by Andy Darley of Middlesex, UK, who found The Cube in a wood in Northamptonshire, UK on 2 February 2007.

After several years without league football, the club joined the Northamptonshire League in 1909, and won the title in 1911 – 12.

After some indifferent scores, he completed his maiden first-class century on 23 and 24 July against Northamptonshire at Northampton when he and Holmes put on 279 for the first wicket, Sutcliffe scoring 145 and Holmes 133.

With the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire route unfinished, a Bill was put to Parliament to authorise a new canal, known as the Grand Union Canal, from the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal at Foxton, to Norton on the Grand Junction Canal.

* May 14 – Northamptonshire gains ( over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs ) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship.

Unwin, his wife and their nine-month-old daughter Marion moved to Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Cecily Neville died on 31 May 1495 and was buried in the tomb with Richard and their son Edmund at the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, with a papal indulgence.

The East Midlands comprises the shire counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire ( with their respective districts ) and the unitary county of Rutland.

The income from their business success gave them the opportunity to give Dickinson — then 13 years old — a boarding school education and they chose Oundle, a public school in Northamptonshire.

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.

All their property having been confiscated, Fritz's parents succeeded in leaving the country in 1939, eventually escaping to Bolivia while sending Fritz and his older sister Hanny ( born 1923 ) to England, where, in Northamptonshire, they received a warm welcome.

Oundle School in Oundle, Northamptonshire, uses the Badge of the Grocers Camel as their school badge.

The fuel was pumped through steel pipes made by Stewarts and Lloyds at their ( then ) recently completed, integrated iron & steel tube-making plant at Corby, Northamptonshire.

Gibbs then signed for Yorkshire Carnegie for the 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament, where he was their overseas player, scoring 101 from 53 balls against Northamptonshire to achieve his first century in English T20 cricket.

Gatecrasher relocated their summer festival to Turweston Airfield near Brackley, Northamptonshire.

Up to about the mid-19th century, a number of villages in south Northamptonshire had Morris dance teams who performed each spring and early summer as part of their local customs.

Because of this geographic position, the residents of Byfield look to both Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire for fulfillment of many of their service needs.

The iron-mines and stone-quarries of Northamptonshire were worked in Roman times, but the former were entirely neglected from the Plantagenet period until their rediscovery in 1850, while the two most famous quarries, those of Barnack and Stanion, were exhausted about the 16th century.

He went on to become a fixture in the side for 17 years, 13 as an England international, winning the 1980 Benson & Hedges Cup Final and the 1992 NatWest Trophy, and in his final season as captain in 1995 he very nearly took Northamptonshire to their first County Championship with 12 wins in their final 17 matches.

As captain he led Gloucestershire to the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1977, as director of coaching he guided Northamptonshire CCC to their triumph in the 1989-90 Nat West Trophy final and in 1994 he was coach as Kepler Wessels ' South African team stunned England at Lord's by 356 runs.

The Scrope family appear to be related and allied to the Gant family in the 12th century, and possibly trace their origins to Lincolnshire or Northamptonshire.

The Dukes of Grafton kept their Northamptonshire estates until 1921.

The following year he was not as consistent, but in the last match he played a magnificent unbeaten innings of 241 against the strong bowling of Derbyshire-who had sealed their only ever County Championship title-to almost give Northamptonshire an elusive victory.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Northamptonshire, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new seat in the county, meaning consequential changes for existing seats.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Northamptonshire, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency in the county, meaning consequential changes for the rest of the county.

The Bangladeshis started their tour with first-class warm-up games against the British Universities, Sussex and Northamptonshire.

In 1900, Thompson surprised the critics with an excellent innings of 125 for the Players when called in at the last minute, but in the following three years he was amazingly successful for Northamptonshire in the Minor Counties Championship: in 1904, he averaged 36 with the bat and less than 10 with the ball ,-showing him far too good for that level.

Northamptonshire were bowled out for 169, and Australia opted to bat again, Simon Katich and Justin Langer both making half-centuries before the final day's play ended and the game was drawn.

However, he resigned the captaincy in the middle of the match against Northamptonshire in August 2004, handing over to Steve Rhodes for the remainder of the season on the grounds that he wanted to concentrate on his form with the bat.

Stoke Bruerne Park in Northamptonshire was built by Sir Francis Crane, “ receiving the assistance of Inigo Jones ”, between 1629 and 1635.

Soon after, Geraint Jones, who had remained first choice for England despite a slump in batting form, broke a finger in the second Test match against Pakistan in 2006 ; the next day Read scored a rapid 72 against Northamptonshire in a Natwest Pro 40 League game.

Thus the Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Canal never even got close to Northamptonshire.

Geoffrey, too, got his start in this way, as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for the last five years of Henry II's reign.

His marriage to the widowed Lady Grey took place secretly and though the date is not accepted as exactly accurate is traditionally said to have taken place ( with only the bride's mother and two ladies in attendance ) at her family home in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464, just over three years after he had taken the English throne subsequent to leading the Yorkists in an overwhelming victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.

Haselrig married firstly Frances Elmes, daughter of Thomas Elmes of Lilford, Northamptonshire, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

Dennis, the younger of two boys, was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire and grew up in Mill Hill in North London as his father was appointed a parish vicar in London soon after his birth.

The church at Eye in Northamptonshire was also rebuilt to Basevi's designs ; it was opened in 1847, two years after his death: the steeple was finally added in 1857.

He also made two centuries, the first of his career, one against Northamptonshire which was " timely in the context of the match " and the other at the Scarborough Festival where he " hit six sixes and 11 fours in 67 minutes ".

The Daventry seat was split in two at the 2010 general election, with the northern portion becoming part of a new Daventry constituency and the southern part becoming part of a South Northamptonshire constituency.

It is one of the few examples in the country where there is an ancient parish with no church at its centre, though since the Victorian era it has been considered part of both Stowe in Buckinghamshire ( although the two aren't neighbours ) and Silverstone in Northamptonshire.

H. Cavalier that the Elegy was actually written in the Churchyard of Everdon, Northamptonshire, based on observations comparing the two churchyards and the lines in the poem.

He married, on 16 October 1735, Rebecca Samborne Le Bas ( died 16 January 1765 ), daughter and heiress of Charles Samborne Le Bas, of Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters, Lady Elizabeth ( 18 June 1739-21 January 1811, buried at Hartwell ), married on 20 June 1763 Sir William Lee, 4th Baronet, of Hartwell ( 12 September 1726-6 July 1799 ) and Lady Anne ( 1741 – 1746 ), and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively.

Their two major estates are Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire and Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire.

The Watford Gap is located at a minor gap between two slight hills in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

Located in Northamptonshire, Rockingham falls under the control of two local authorities.

Rothwell was once one of the three largest towns in Northamptonshire, the other two being Northampton and Stamford ( which is now in Lincolnshire ).

Following the series Key returned to the domestic scene, and finished the season with two further tons ; 131 against both Northamptonshire and Middlesex.

The first came in the 1971 John Player League when Northamptonshire played Lancashire and the second came in 1982 in the same competition and between the same two sides.

Although his batting was poor he hit a boundary off the second last ball in the Gillette Cup Semi Final for Northamptonshire vs Hampshire, winning the match by two wickets.

The five new FLO posts were based in museums and archaeology services in Dorset and Somerset ( one post covering two counties ), Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and Wales.

Plausible suggestions include Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near Atherstone in Warwickshire, a site close to High Cross in Leicestershire, and a small dip at Cuttle Mill, two miles south-east of Lactodorum ( Towcester ) in Northamptonshire.

By contrast he had two other properties in Northamptonshire and Cheshire completely destroyed.

Muggleton himself ruefully records that out of his family, friends and neighbours he managed only to convert his two daughters and his cousin Roger in Northamptonshire.

The part of Oakham and Uppingham RSDs in Rutland formed the Oakham Rural District and Uppingham Rural District, with the two parishes from Oakham RSD in Leicestershire becoming part of the Melton Mowbray Rural District, the 9 parishes of Uppingham RSD in Leicestershire becoming the Hallaton Rural District, and the 6 parishes of Uppingham RSD in Northamptonshire becoming Gretton Rural District.

Abberline was married twice: once in March 1868 to 25-year-old Martha Mackness, the daughter of a labourer, from Elton, Northamptonshire ; she died of tuberculosis two months after the marriage.