Wellingborough,

Wellingborough, a market-town of Northamptonshire, on a declivity near the confluence of the Ise with the Nen, 10½ miles ENE. of Northampton. Almost destroyed by fire in 1738, it has a chalybeate spring (the 'Red Well'), said to have been resorted to by Charles I. and Henrietta Maria; a large and imposing parish church (restored 1861-74), mainly Decorated and Perpendicular in style; a corn exchange (1861); a grammar-school (1595), transferred to new buildings in 1880; and important industries of boot-making, iron-smelting, &c. Pop. (1851) 5061; (1891) 15,068.