Settled by successive waves of incomers, Northamptonshire is a
typical English shire county with prehistoric camps, Roman towns,
Saxon burhs, castles and fortified houses, representing
fortification over the centuries, a process punctuated by momentous
events including the birth of Richard III and the execution of
Mary, Queen of Scots, both at Fotheringhay Castle; King John's
sieges at Northampton, Rockingham and Fotheringhay; the Battle of
Northampton placing Edward IV on the throne; and the decisive
defeat of Charles I at Naseby. The great ordnance depot at Weedon
was (allegedly) chosen as a bolt-hole for George III in the place
furthest from Napoleon's likely invasion. The Victorian period saw
the army reorganized and the Volunteer Force develop. Both world
wars mobilized the population and the county filled up with army
camps, airfields and munitions plants. In the Cold War, nuclear
missiles were pointed towards Russia. Many signs of all these
events are still visible: Northampton's militia armoury in the
guise of a mediaeval castle; the genuine castles of Barnwell and
Rockingham: the launch-pads of Harrington's THOR missiles; the
Ordnance Stores at Weedon Bec; and the banks and ditches of
Hunsbury Camp or Little Houghton. This book illustrates and
explains these sites.
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