Irthlingborough
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yrtlingaburg, Erdiburn, Artleknock, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire
Irthlingborough () is a town on the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England. As of 2021, it has a population of 9,325, and was at one point the smallest town in England to have had a Football League team, Rushden & Diamonds F.C. The parish church, St Peter, has a lantern tower, unusual for Northamptonshire churches, which was built to guide travellers across the Nene valley in foggy weather. It also has doors at the four cardinal points and has eight misericords in the chancel.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Irthlingborough
- UK place.static_image_name
- Church of St Peter, Irthlingborough - geograph.org.uk - 120204.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Peter's Church, Irthlingborough
- UK place.population
- 9,325
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP945705
- UK place.civil_parish
- Irthlingborough
- UK place.unitary_england
- North Northamptonshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Northamptonshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- WELLINGBOROUGH
- UK place.postcode_area
- NN
- UK place.postcode_district
- NN9
- UK place.dial_code
- 01933
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- UK place.website
- Irthlingborough Town Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- North Northamptonshire
- Population
- 8535
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Church of St Peter, Irthlingborough - geograph.org.uk - 120204.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01933
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- Commons category
- Irthlingborough
- OS grid reference
- SP945705
- postal code
- NN9
- P8168
- Nelson
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Mining
- Quarrying
- Main roads
- Local economy
- Education
- Media
- Sport
- Notable people
- References
- External links
- News items
Irthlingborough () is a town on the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England. As of 2021, it has a population of 9,325, and was at one point the smallest town in England to have had a Football League team, Rushden & Diamonds F.C. The parish church, St Peter, has a lantern tower, unusual for Northamptonshire churches, which was built to guide travellers across the Nene valley in foggy weather. It also has doors at the four cardinal points and has eight misericords in the chancel.
Irthlingborough railway station, opened in 1845 and closed to passengers in 1964.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irthlingborough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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