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3 unusual facts about Daventry


James Slade

James Slade was born in Daventry, Northamptonshire on May 2, 1783 to the Reverend James Slade and Elizabeth Slade (née Waterfield).

Leonard George Chapman

On the 26th February a successful demonstration of radar was given at Daventry, Northhamptonshire.

Visard

A visard recovered from inside the wall of a 16th-century building in Daventry, England.


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Brington

Brington, Northamptonshire, the civil parish in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England

Daventry Town F.C.

During the 2011–2012, local rivals Daventry United folded and their Manager Darran Foster moved to Daventry Town as Mark Kinsella's Assistant.

Dodford, Northamptonshire

In 1222 the manor of Dodford was acquired by William de Keynes who enclosed much of the land including a deer park which lay to the south of the village between it and what is now the A45 between Daventry and Weedon.

Everdon Priory

The village of Everdon is located about 6 km (4 miles) south-east of the town of Daventry.

Iain Coucher

Married with a son (born February 1995) and daughter (born June 1998), Coucher lives in Daventry, Northamptonshire and lists his car as an Aston Martin DB9.

Leamington Spa railway station

Almost all the trains from these stations had been local services, to Kenilworth, Coventry, Rugby and (earlier) Daventry and Weedon.

Passive radar

The first radar experiments in the United Kingdom in 1935 by Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated the principle of radar by detecting a Handley Page Heyford bomber at a distance of 12 km using the BBC shortwave transmitter at Daventry.

Praise-God Barebone

Writing in 2001, Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he was the son of John Barebone, rector of Charwelton and Mary Roper of Daventry, and that he probably had an older brother called Fear-God (who is known to have been a minor poet).

Silvester de Everdon

Everdon came from the village of Everdon, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, but other than the fact that he was related to a locally prominent family of Thorp, nothing else is known of his ancestry.

Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet

Leighton died at Norton Hall, near Daventry, Northamptonshire on 26 January 1871 aged 65, and was buried in Loton Park's parish churchyard of St Michael, Alberbury.

Wolfhampcote

There are also the remains of two abandoned railway lines, the first being the old Weedon to Leamington Spa (via Daventry) railway, part of the London and North Western Railway (later the LMS), which closed to passengers in September 1958 and to freight in December 1963, and the second being the Great Central Main Line, which closed to all traffic in September 1966.


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