Northampton ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a large market town Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing them from villages and cities. A town may be correctly described as a market town or as having market rights even if it no longer holds a market, provided the right to do so still exists and local government district Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially 'shire districts', are a type of local government district in England. As originally created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties in a so-called "two-tier" arrangement. In the 1990s, several non-metropolitan counties were created that are unitary authorities and also have non- in the East Midlands The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It encompasses the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire, although people often speak of the "East Midlands" with only the more region of England. It is about 67 miles (108 km) north-west of London and around 50 miles (80 km) south-east of Birmingham Birmingham (pronounced /ˈbɝːmɪŋəm/ , BUR-ming-əm, locally /ˈbɝːmɪŋɡəm/ with a 'g') is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's core cities, and is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 (2006 estimate), and lies on the River Nene The River Nene is a river in the east of England that rises from three sources in the county of Northamptonshire. The tidal river forms the border between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for about 6 kilometres . It is the ninth longest river in the United Kingdom. From the source at Arbury Hill to Northampton the river falls a total of 90 metres (300. It is the county town A county town is the 'capital' of a county in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county. The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county of Northamptonshire Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire (including the city of Peterborough), Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (including the borough of Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire, and Lincolnshire (England's.
The district's population is 200,100 and the town population is 189,474 This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population. The populations are 2001 census figures from the Office for National Statistics , using the Key Statistics for Urban Areas figures, that attempt to divorce the populations of towns and cities from the Local Authority district(s) that they are contained within. These, making Northampton the 21st-largest settlement in England, and the UK's 3rd-largest town without official city status City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the British monarch to a select group of communities. The holding of city status gives a settlement no special rights other than that of calling itself a "city". Nonetheless, this appellation carries its own prestige and, consequently, competitions for the status are hard fought. The status, after Reading Reading (pronounced /ˈrɛdɪŋ/ (RED-ing)) is a large town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway. It is one of the contenders for the title of the largest town in England, and is the largest settlement in the home counties in terms of population. For and Dudley Dudley ( pronunciation ) is a large town in the West Midlands, England, with a population of 194,919. Since 1974 it has been the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Dudley; the original County Borough had undergone a lesser expansion in 1966. It is the 19th largest settlement in England[citation needed] measured by Urban Sub-. Northampton is the most populous district The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four types of district level subdivision. Some districts are styled as boroughs, cities, or royal boroughs. These are purely honorific titles, and do in England that is not a unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government, a status it failed to obtain in the 1990s local government reform The structure of local government in the United Kingdom underwent large changes in the 1990s. The system of two-tier local government introduced in the 1970s by the Local Government Act 1972 and the Local Government Act 1973 was abolished in Scotland and Wales on April 1, 1996, and replaced with unitary authorities. In England, some areas remained.[2] Northampton's population has increased greatly since the 1960s, largely due to planned expansion under the New Towns Commission A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion in the early 1960s.
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