Kettering

Kettering, a market-town of Northamptonshire, 75 miles NNW. of London by rail. The parish church, dating from about 1450, and restored in 1862, is a fine Perpendicular structure, with tower and spire. A town-hall and corn exchange was built in 1863; and Kettering has also a free grammar-school, water-works (1872), and manufactures of boots and shoes, stays, plush, brushes, &c. The charter for the market was given by Henry III. in 1227 to the monks of Peterborough. Pop. of parish (1861) 5845; (1891) 19,454.