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Daventry
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Daventry ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, close to Northamptonshire's border with Warwickshire. At the 2021 Census, Daventry had a population of 28,123, making it the sixth-largest town in Northamptonshire.
Key facts
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Daventry
- UK place.post_town
- DAVENTRY
- UK place.postcode_district
- NN11
- UK place.postcode_area
- NN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01327
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP5762
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Daventry
- UK place.static_image_name
- The Burton Memorial and the Moot Hall, Daventry, geograph 5717466 by Humphrey Bolton.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 275
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Daventry New Street, looking towards Market Square
- UK place.population
- 28,123
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Daventry
- UK place.unitary_england
- West Northamptonshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Northamptonshire
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Encyclopedic overview
36 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Characteristics
- History
- Early history and toponymy
- Medieval and Tudor
- English Civil War
- Dissenters
- Coaching town
- Stagnation and decline 1838–1955
- Broadcasting station
- Radar experiment
- Daventry since 1955
- Planned expansion
- Recent history
- Politics and government
- Notable buildings and landmarks
- Local economy
- Transport
- Road
- Bus
- Railways
- Air
- Education
- Demographics
- Population
- Ethnicity
- Country of birth
- Religion
- Sport and leisure
- Local media
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Daventry ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, close to Northamptonshire's border with Warwickshire. At the 2021 Census, Daventry had a population of 28,123, making it the sixth-largest town in Northamptonshire.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial photograph of Daventry, taken from the east
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daventry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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