Daventry

52.2575 - 1.165Koordinaten: 52 ° 15 ' N, 1 ° 10' W

Daventry is a city in the British county of Northamptonshire and the administrative seat of the district of the same name. The population is 22,367 (as of 2001). The town is twinned with Westerburg in Rhineland- Palatinate.

History

On the " Borough Hill ", an establishment located within the city limits 199 meters high hill, remains of fortifications from the Iron Age and buildings from the time of the Roman Empire were found. To this hill was built from the early Middle Ages and the present town of Daventry. The town's name derives from this Daefantreo, a " tree of Dafa", here. Over the years, changes in writing and pronunciation of the name - that contain records of 1085 the name Daventrei, followed by Dauentry ( 1124 ) and Davintria (1200).

In 1255 Daventry was awarded market rights. Due to its convenient location in one of the main routes between London and Coventry Daventry took over consecutive stepwise tasks surrounding market towns such as Catesby, Fawsley, Flore and Long Buckby. 1576 was the place by Queen Elizabeth I the status of a borough, which he kept until 1974 saw the foundation of today's Daventry district.

The Industrial Revolution had little impact on Daventry, after the place had lost its former convenient location. The " Grand Junction Canal ," a channel between London Brentford on the Thames and Braunston near Rugby and now part of the Grand Union Canal, was built in 1793-1805 a few miles north of Daventry. The 1838 opened railway line of " London and Birmingham Railway " was also moved north and northeast of the city on Long Buckby. Until 1888 Daventry received a 1895 to Leamington Spa prolonged and decommissioned in the 1960s branch line connection to the railway network.

The BBC began in 1923 with the construction of a transmission station on the " Borough Hill ", which was put into operation in 1925. For decades, the program of the BBC World Service broadcast from there. Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins led there on February 26, 1935 the first British field trial with radar (see also History of the development of radar in England). The transmitting station was closed on 28 March 1992 the BBC and is now used only in parts of the air traffic control.

Until the 1950s, Daventry remained a small town, In 1950, about 6,000 residents in the village. In the following years, there was not least through the establishment of several companies such as ball bearings manufacturer "British Timken " strong population growth, so that the population increased until the mid- 1970s to about 20,000.

Umschlagbahnhof Daventry

In the 1990s, was built at the crossroads of the West Coast Main Line rail route between London and Coventry with the M1 motorway, the " Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal" ( DIRFT ), a trade station of combined transport. The name of the operated by the company Tibbett & Britten terminals is misleading in so far as the investment is more than ten kilometers north of Daventry. All four active in rail freight rail companies of Britain, Direct Rail Services ( DRS ), DB Schenker Rail ( UK) ( former English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ) ), Freightliner and GB Railfreight, go to the DIRFT. The terminal is now one of the largest not located on the coast transhipment stations in Britain.