Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the capital of the English county of Buckinghamshire and has 58 740 inhabitants ( 2011). The city is located in the district of Aylesbury Vale, whose main town is also.

History

The city's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon; Excavations in the city center in the early 1990s have shown that here as early as 1500 BC, was a settlement. Aylesbury was a major market cities in the Anglo-Saxon period and is recorded in the Domesday Book.

Aylesbury was appointed by Henry VIII to the county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529. Previously this had been Buckingham, but the lands around Aylesbury belonged to the father of Anne Boleyn and it is believed that Henry VIII wanted to improve his relations with her ​​father.

In the English Civil War the city played an important role as a bastion of parliamentary forces.

The Jacobean mansion of Hartwell near Aylesbury was the residence of Louis XVIII. during his exile ( 1810-1814 ). The town also received international attention in the 1960s, as the perpetrators of the great railway robbery were convicted in 1963 in Aylesbury.

Since the 1960s, the population has doubled.

Trade and Industry

The market town of Aylesbury was to go back to the Anglo-Saxons, a trading center. This is because of the city's location at the Akeman Street, which linked London with the south-west.

Since 1477 wheat was grown in the city. Until the modern era, these were an important branch of industry; the last mill closed in the 1970s.

Around 1560 Around the manufacture of needles had become an important economic factor, because these were only produced in Aylesbury.

1672 was the poor children taught lace-making to allow them an income. Lace from Buckinghamshire ( Bucks lace ) was in great demand and the production, which was carried out mainly by poor women and children, grew considerably. Manual lace making died out during the Victorian era, was brought forward as a machine-made lace.

After 1814 Aylesbury was connected to the Grand Union Canal, this brought new industries in the city. Until the late 19th century, the book printing and bookbinding Hazell, Watson and Viney and the Nestlé dairy were the largest employers in the city - more than half the population working in these establishments.

Even today, Aylesbury is an important commercial center. Nestle and Hazell, Watson and Viney are no longer in the city, but three industrial centers make sure the town has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.

Sons and daughters of the town

Pictures of Aylesbury

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