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68-526: The Wellingborough Tramway was an industrial narrow-gauge railway that connected a series of ironstone mines and quarries with the Midland Railway and later with the ironworks on the north side of Wellingborough . In various forms, the tramway operated between 1875 and 1966. In 1870, Wellingborough businessman James Rixon opened a brickworks on the west side of the Midland Railway line, opposite

136-472: A standard gauge design. All open-cast quarrying was abandoned, with all ore being extracted from the combined Thingdon/Glebe mines. Five new 2 ft 4 in ( 711 mm ) gauge Ruston & Hornsby diesel locomotives were purchased to work the underground trains. These mines were expanded throughout the 1930s. In 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War , Stanton Ironworks

204-498: A bog whilst riding. Upon being rescued by villagers from Corby she granted the charter in gratitude for her rescue. Another popular explanation is that it was granted as a favour to her alleged lover Sir Christopher Hatton . The Corby Pole Fair is an event that has taken place every 20 years since 1862 in celebration of the charter. The 1942 fair was not held due to the Second World War; it took place five years later. According to

272-701: A community radio station. Corby’s local newspaper is the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph . Corby's main football team is Corby Town F.C. , who play in the Southern League Division One Central. The Steelmen play at Steel Park and have an average home attendance of 431 in 2018/19. The town's other semi-professional football club are Stewarts & Lloyds Corby F.C. , who play in the United Counties League . S&L play their home matches at Occupation Road. Corby

340-581: A factory here, and manufactured products for the UK market here. 2018 research by Sky News identified Corby as the town most threatened by job losses in the UK due to automation with 31% of employment subject to cliff-edge automation. According to the 2001 Census the proportion of the working age population with degree-level qualifications (8.5%) is the lowest of all areas in England and Wales. 39.3% have no GCSE -equivalent qualifications at all. The borough of Corby has

408-512: A further third of the population are Scottish or of Scottish descent. The Scottish heritage is cherished by many inhabitants. There are Scottish social and sporting clubs and there are many fervent supporters of the Rangers and Celtic football clubs (indeed, Corby was home to the largest Rangers Supporters' Club outside Glasgow and Northern Ireland until its closure in February 2013 ) as well as

476-477: A large number of industrial railways serve the sugarcane industry. In Colorado , the Coors Brewing Company uses its own industrial railway at the brewery both for the delivery of raw materials and for shipping the finished product. Some industrial railways are military in purpose, and serve ammunition dumps or transportation hubs and storage facilities. The world's largest industrial railway serves

544-513: A majority of 7,791 votes over the Conservatives . UKIP finished in third place whilst the Liberal Democrats finished in fourth place, losing their deposit. The by-election was of national and international media interest due to the constituency being a marginal seat . During the wait for the results announcement, "Corby" briefly trended worldwide on Twitter . The Conservatives took back

612-502: A majority of 9,141 votes. The constituency's Conservative MP at the time, Tom Pursglove , had also been in favour of the UK leaving the European Union being one of the founders of Grassroots Out , the pro-Brexit organisation largely supported by Conservative and UKIP politicians. Corby used to have 15 wards at the time of the 2011 census however following a boundary change only 11 remained. Some entirely new wards were created in

680-564: A new bus station in Corby are being considered by the council following the closure of the old bus station in August 2002. Following a number of years when the town had no railway station, a new facility opened on 23 February 2009. East Midlands Railway runs half-hourly services to London St Pancras via Kettering and Wellingborough . The route to London was converted to electric traction in May 2021. There

748-596: A newspaper report dated 14 June 1862 which focuses on the extravagances of the fair, the fugitive slave John Anderson was described as being educated in the Corby British School, giving the town an unusual link to slavery in the United States . The most recent pole fair was held on Friday, 3 June 2022, to coincide with The Queen 's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The local area has been worked for iron ore since Roman times. An ironstone industry developed in

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816-453: A passenger technology). Industrial railways may connect the site to public freight networks through sidings , or may be isolated (sometimes very far away from public rail or surface roads) or located entirely within a served property. Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport , their numbers have greatly diminished. An example of an industrial railway would transport bulk goods, for example clay from

884-450: A population of 68,164. From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Corby , which at the 2021 Census had a population of 75,571. Corby was once known as "Little Scotland" due to the large number of Scottish workers who came to its steelworks. Corby has undergone regeneration with the opening of Corby railway station and Corby International Pool in 2009 and

952-573: A quarry or coal from a mine, to an interchange point, called an exchange siding, with a main line railway, onwards from where it would be transported to its final destination. The main reasons for industrial railways are normally for one of two reasons: Resultantly, most industrial railways are short, usually being only a few miles/kilometers long. While these types of lines most often at some point connect via exchange sidings or transfer sidings to bulk mainline shipping railways, there are notable exceptions which are hundreds of miles long, which include

1020-544: A range of vocational courses for post-16 students and adult learners. The nearest universities are the University of Northampton , 23 mi (37 km) to the south and both the University of Leicester and De Montfort University in Leicester , 25 mi (40 km) to the west. Brooke Weston Academy , was one of only fifteen CTCs in England, opened in 1990. Brooke Weston CTC consistently achieved examination results in

1088-481: A ten-year development strategy with expenditure of £3,000 million from 1973 onwards, the objective of which was to convert BSC from a large number of small scale works, using largely obsolete equipment, to a far more compact organisation with highly competitive plant. Steelmaking was to be concentrated in five main areas: South Wales, Sheffield, Scunthorpe, Teesside and Scotland, most of which are coastal sites with access to economic supplies of iron rich imported ores. It

1156-465: Is about the loss of jobs in Corby. Corby was designated as a new town in 1950. Most of the housing in the town has been built since this date. The first new street completed was Bessemer Grove, about the same time that the re-built blast furnace was lit. New industry was subsequently attracted to the town when the Thatcher government designated it as an Enterprise Zone. By 1991 unemployment had returned to

1224-458: Is also a limited peak time service running north to Oakham , Melton Mowbray , East Midlands Parkway and Derby . Since the 1980s the unemployment rate has returned to a level closer to the national average (2.7% in October 2005). Employment is biased towards manufacturing (36.8% compared with a regional average of 18.5%) and against public administration, health and education (10.0% compared with

1292-612: Is also home to the Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool , which opened in 2009, and is home to its own swimming club. It is also home to the Stewarts and Lloyds Rugby Football Club which despite the long closure of the steel industry maintains its proud heritage of its industrial roots. The club plays in the RFU 's Midland South East 3 division. Corby also has an athletics club for under-11s to over 60s. In

1360-469: Is complemented by a participation programme encouraging all parts of Corby community to get involved. Recently the theatre started screening films, twice a week and including current mainstream releases and the best in world, independent and art house cinema. A report in 2012 revealed that the Cube was built with dangerous design flaws and almost double its original estimated costs and a capacity of only half of what

1428-532: Is different from that of older towns. There are several dual carriageways, most of the principal roads have wide reservations and high speed limits and pedestrian crossings over them are often underpasses. However, Corby is only connected by dual carriageway to one neighbouring town, Kettering (the A6003 ). All other roads into the town are single carriageways. The three dual carriageways form an outer ring road around most of Corby, however it only encircles suburbs south of

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1496-600: Is recorded in 1851 that the accent spoken in the northern parts of Northamptonshire would be more recognisable as a "West Country dialect". Scottish migration to Corby has created a unique population in the borough. The link with Scotland is a strong feature of the area: according to the 2001 Census , there were 10,063 Scottish-born in the Corby Urban Area ;– 18.9% of the population. A further 1.3 per cent were born in Northern Ireland . It has been estimated that

1564-468: Is stated to sell 17 times more Irn-Bru than any other store in England. Its popularity is cemented by the fact that it is available for purchase in all bars, nightclubs and pubs in the area. In 2014, Corby held a mock referendum in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum . 576 votes were cast, with 162 voting for Scottish independence and 414 voting against. According to the 2001 Census 1.7% of

1632-668: The Baikonur Cosmodrome , and has been long operated by a military rail unit of the Russian Armed Forces . The railway closely participates in space launches , transporting space vehicles to their immediate launch pads . Corby Corby is a town and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire , England, 23 miles (37 km) north-east of Northampton . In 2021 it had

1700-567: The Corby Cube in 2010. The Cube houses a 450-seat theatre, public library and other community amenities. Mesolithic and Neolithic artefacts have been found in the area surrounding Corby and human remains dating to the Bronze Age were found in 1970 at Cowthick . The first evidence of permanent settlement comes from the 8th century when Danish invaders arrived and the settlement became known as "Kori's by" – Kori's settlement. The settlement

1768-862: The iron ore -carrying railways in Western Australia , or in China to transport coal, while in Canada there are the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway and the Cartier Railway . These lines can be thought of as dedicated shipment routes, where only the products of that industry require shipment between those two points, and hence a dedicated line makes more economic sense with only limited possibility of consolidation of shipment with other industries. See Compagnie de gestion de Matane Industrial railways serve many different industries. In both Australia and Cuba

1836-523: The "suspicious" findings of an audit report to the police to see if a crime had been committed. The audit report examined four major projects, including the Corby Cube , the cost of which went from £35m to £47m. In the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union , Corby voted 64% in favour of leaving whilst only 36% voted to remain in the EU. The turnout was 74.1% with the leave vote winning with

1904-552: The 1890s and 1900s, with new land leases being taken to support quarrying. In 1911 the Thingdon Quarry immediately south of Finedon was leased from Neilson's . From 1913, a number of underground adits were driven from the quarry face eastwards to access deeper ore deposits. These eventually extended to dozens of miles of tunnels and galleries running towards Irthlingborough . These mines were served by horse-hauled 2 ft 4 in ( 711 mm ) gauge tramways. In 1926

1972-415: The 19th century with the coming of the railways and the discovery of extensive ironstone beds. By 1910 an ironstone works had been established. In 1931 Corby was a small village with a population of around 1,500. It grew rapidly into a reasonably sized industrial town, when the owners of the ironstone works, the steel firm Stewarts & Lloyds , decided to build a large integrated ironstone and steel works on

2040-565: The Corby constituency from Labour in 2015, with Conservative Tom Pursglove defeating Labour's Andy Sawford by a majority of 2,412 votes. In local politics, the now abolished Corby Borough Council was controlled by the Labour Party since 1979. In 2015, the council had 24 Labour representatives and 5 Conservatives. On 8 December 2014, Northamptonshire Police began an investigation into financial dealings by Corby Borough Council. In July 2013, Conservative councillors Rob McKellar and David Sims handed

2108-701: The EU. The enterprise zone was promoted by the Corby Industrial Development Centre through a prospectus that parodied The Economist , titled The Ecorbyist ; publication continued at least as late as 1994. To the north of Corby, on the industrial estates , is a 350MW power station built in 1994; and the Rockingham Motor Speedway built in 2001. From 1894 until 1939 Corby was a parish in Kettering Rural District , in 1939 Corby became an urban district, on 1 April 1974

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2176-805: The Local Elections on 6 May 2021, Corby returned 12 Labour Councillors and 3 Conservative Councillors across 5 wards, with the Conservatives only being elected in the Rural Ward. The newly created Corby Town Council returned 17 Labour Councillors across 4 Wards, which are all the seats on the Corby Town Council. In 2022, Corby Town Councillor Tafadzwa Chikoto became the first black mayor of Corby. In 2012, Corby bid to gain city status as part of Queen Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. However, it lost out to Perth , Chelmsford and St Asaph . It

2244-537: The New Conservative Governments Minister, Sir Keith Joseph announced the closure of Corby Steelworks. By the end of 1981 over 5,000 jobs had been lost from British Steel in Corby, and further cuts took the total loss to 11,000 jobs, leading to an unemployment rate of over 30%. Steel tube making continued, however, initially being supplied with steel by rail from Teesside and later from South Wales. The title track of Steeltown by Big Country

2312-574: The Scottish National Team. Many shops sell Scottish foods and a supermarket even introduced Gaelic signs to their Corby store (but they have since removed them). An annual Highland Gathering featuring traditional Scottish sports, music and dancing is held in the town. Corby has one Church of Scotland congregation [1] Local legend states that Corby sees the highest sales of the Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru of anywhere outside Scotland. Asda Corby

2380-477: The Town Wards as well as incorporating the surrounding parishes into Corby Rural. In March 2018, following Northamptonshire County Council becoming insolvent , due to financial and cultural mismanagement by the cabinet and officers, the then Secretary of State for Local Government, Sajid Javid , sent commissioner Max Caller into the council, who recommended the county council and all district and borough councils in

2448-647: The Wellingborough Iron Company was purchased by the Stanton Ironworks and the ironworks at Wellingborough was closed down. Stanton overhauled the iron-making process, equipping a completely new and larger ironworks. The tramway was rebuilt using heavier rail that allowed larger trains to be run. To operate these trains, three new Peckett locomotives were purchased to replace the Hunslets. These new locomotives were substantially more powerful, being based on

2516-628: The Youth Development League, the upper age group gained promotion to Midland East 1 and gained promotion in the Heart of England Athletics League. The town is located along the A43 , A427 , A6003 and is 6 miles (9.7 km) from the A14 at Kettering . Corby lies within two hours' drive of four international airports: Birmingham , Luton , Stansted and East Midlands . Being a new town, Corby's road network

2584-681: The change however the Beanfield, Central, Danesholme, Rowlett, Rural West, Stanion and Corby Village, Weldon and Gretton and Lodge Park wards remained in existence. On the 1 April 2021, the Corby Borough Council was abolished and the Town of Corby now has 4 wards in the Town Council which are Oakley, Corby West, Kingswood and Hazel Lees and Lloyds, and 5 wards in the Unitary Authority which includes

2652-490: The constituency in 1983. At the 2005 general election , Labour won Corby with a majority of just over 1,000 votes. At the 2010 general election, the sitting Labour MP Phil Hope lost the seat to writer Louise Bagshawe , the Conservative Party candidate, who became Louise Mensch after her marriage the following year. In 2012, Mensch resigned as an MP and the resulting by-election was won by Labour 's Andy Sawford with

2720-547: The county be abolished, and replaced by two unitary authorities , one covering the West, and one the North of the county. These proposals were approved in April 2019. It meant that the districts of Daventry , Northampton and South Northamptonshire were merged to form a new unitary authority called West Northamptonshire , whilst the second unitary authority North Northamptonshire consists of

2788-603: The final pit and the tramway were closed. It was the last industrial narrow gauge railway operating in The Midlands ironstone industry. Industrial railway An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics , or military site. In regions of the world influenced by British railway culture and management practices, they are often referred to as tramways (which are distinct from trams or streetcars,

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2856-472: The former Corby, East Northamptonshire , Kettering and Wellingborough districts. These new authorities came into being on 1 April 2021. Elections for the new authorities were due to be held on 7 May 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and were instead held on 6 May 2021 . On 1 April 2021 a civil parish called Corby Town was formed. On 1 January 2024 the parish was renamed to "Corby". In

2924-481: The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the East Midlands, outside of the metropolitan boroughs (unitary authorities), although Lincoln is very similar. According to the 2011 census, Corby had a population of 61,255 and was 85.0% White British, 9.1% Other White (not including White Irish and Irish Traveller), 1.4% mixed race, 1.4% Asian and 1.7% Black. Corby's least White British ward is Oakley Vale where 70.7% of

2992-426: The intentional burning of oil and latex to hide the glowing Bessemer converter furnaces at the steelworks from German bomber crews. The only known remaining scars from German attacks can be found in the form of bullet holes visible on the front fascia of the old post office in Corby village (now known as Decades bar and restaurant). The Corby steelworks made a notable contribution to the war effort by manufacturing

3060-555: The late 1950s. Stewarts and Lloyds began supplying ore to the Wellingborough ironworks from their extensive quarries at Corby , and the output of the Finedon pits was transferred from the metre gauge tramway to standard gauge wagons and taken to the steelworks at Irlam . By 1962 only one pit near Finedon was still in use. The Wellingborough Ironworks closed down at the end of 1962. Ore continued to be quarried near Finedon until 1966, when

3128-536: The layout for the first 500 houses. The town now underwent its second wave of expansion, mainly from Scotland . Corby is famous for its Scottish heritage based on decades of incoming steel workers and was for a time known locally as "Little Scotland". In 1967 the British steel industry was nationalised and the Stewarts & Lloyds steel tube works at Corby became part of British Steel Corporation . The Government approved

3196-553: The national average. The recovery of Corby was explained in 1990 by John Redwood , then a junior minister in the Department of Trade and Industry , as being a result of the establishment of the Enterprise Zone, the promotion of Corby by the Thatcher government, the work of private investors and the skills of the work force. Others believe the town's recovery was significantly assisted by its central location and substantial grants from

3264-710: The newly opened Corby Technical School which opened to students in an old unused primary school in September 2012 with the new building completed and opened in November 2013. Corby Business Academy has a special unit for children with severe special educational needs. All four schools have sixth forms for post-16 students. Corby has 17 primary schools, of which two are Church of England schools, three are Roman Catholic and one for children with severe behavioural and emotional difficulties . Corby has an Urban Regeneration Company – North Northants Development Company, which now covers

3332-502: The ore quarries at Sidegate Land that John Clark had been operating were taken over by the Wellingborough Iron Company, and the tramway was extended to serve them. Further underground mines were started at Glebe Quarry 1922, eventually reaching and merging with the Thingdon Mines; these too were served by a 2 ft 4 in ( 711 mm ) gauge tramway which tipped its output into the metre gauge tramway wagons. In late 1932,

3400-456: The population are White British while Corby's least ethnically diverse ward is Rural West, where 95.6% of the population are White British. In 2011, 5567 people registered their ethnicity as 'Other White' or 9.1% of the population. This figure includes a large community of people from Poland and the Baltic States. The Corby campus of Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education provides

3468-437: The population are non-white and the average age of the population (37.2) is slightly lower than the average for England and Wales (38.6). November 2010 saw the opening of the Corby Cube , a major development in the town centre. As well as new council chamber, registrar office, and public library, the Cube is home to a 450-seat theatre and 100 capacity studio theatre. A programme of live theatre, dance, music and standup comedy

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3536-615: The porridge eating contest next time; he's on the 19th bowl. Roger ." Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC East and ITV Anglia . Television signals are received from the Sandy Heath TV transmitter, BBC East Midlands and ITV Central can also be received from the Waltham TV transmitter. The town’s local radio stations are BBC Radio Northampton on 103.6 FM, Heart East on 96.6 FM, Smooth East Midlands (formerly Connect FM ) on 107.4 FM and Corby Radio on 96.3 FM,

3604-463: The regional average of 25.9%). Much of industry is concentrated in purpose-built industrial estates on the outskirts of the town. Fairline Boats were manufactured here. Weetabix Limited make Weetos in the north of the town. RS Components are based near Rockingham Speedway. Taste Original (formerly Puredrive), part of Zwanenberg Food Group UK has operated from Corby since 1988 making cooked meat snacking products. Amy's Kitchen has recently opened

3672-408: The site. The start of construction in 1934 drew workers from all over the country including many workers from the depressed west of Scotland and Irish labourers. The first steel was produced in October 1935 and for decades afterwards the steel works dominated the town. By 1939 the population had grown to around 12,000, at which time Corby was thought to be the largest "village" in the country, but it

3740-571: The steel tubes used in Operation Pluto (Pipe Line Under the Ocean) to supply fuel to Allied forces on the European continent. In 1950, with a population of 18,000, Corby was designated a New Town with William Holford as its architect. By 1951, he prepared the development plan with a car oriented layout and many areas of open space and woodland. In 1952, Holford produced the town centre plan and in 1954

3808-579: The terminus of the Finedonhill Tramway . In 1874, they expanded into iron ore quarrying, leasing land for a quarry to the south of Finedon village. They laid a 1,000 mm ( 3 ft  3 + 3 ⁄ 8  in ) gauge horse-drawn tramway along the side of the Finedon Road (now the A510 ) to transport the ore to sidings just to the north of their brickworks. By 1884 their ironstone quarrying

3876-580: The top 5% of English state schools, and has been a City Academy since September 2008. Since 1990 several of Corby's other secondary schools have fared less well with a series of poor examination results and critical inspection reports leading to mergers and closures, the most recent being the closure of Our Lady and Pope John School in 2005. Currently there are five secondary schools in Corby: Brooke Weston Academy , Lodge Park Academy , Corby Business Academy , Kingswood Secondary Academy and

3944-482: The town centre and a small amount of countryside. Corby is served by six bus routes under the Corby Star brand name. Route X4 connects the town with Peterborough , Oundle , Weldon , Danesholme, Kettering , Isham , Wellingborough , Earls Barton , Northampton , It is also operated by Stagecoach Midlands . National Express coaches also provide long-distance connections to the north and Scotland. Plans to build

4012-466: The urban district and parish were abolished and Corby became an unparished area in Corby non-metropolitan district. The Corby constituency contains parts of traditionally Conservative East Northamptonshire that balance the traditionally Labour town of Corby, leading to a marginal constituency that has gone to the party forming the UK Government at every general election since the creation of

4080-527: The whole of North Northamptonshire rather than just Corby (it was previously known as Catalyst Corby). The company is working closely with Corby Borough Council, Land Securities (town centre owners), the East Midlands Development Agency and the Homes and Communities Agency to regenerate the town centre as part of the masterplan for the whole town. The population of Corby town is expected to double in

4148-459: Was acquired by Stewarts & Lloyds . The efficient Stanton operation continued as before, though the war saw a sharp increase in demand for iron and steel for the war effort. In 1940, Britain's first walking dragline excavator was used at Finedon Top Lodge Quarry which made deeper opencast quarrying viable. the underground mines were abandoned in 1947 and ore extraction concentrated on the opencast pits. Demand for Finedon ore began to drop from

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4216-426: Was at that point that Corby was re-designated an urban district (see the Local Government section below). During the Second World War the Corby steelworks were expected to be a target for German bombers but in the event there were only a few bombs dropped by solitary planes and there were no casualties. This may be because the whole area was blanketed in huge dense black, low-lying clouds created artificially by

4284-460: Was declared bankrupt in 1887. A new company, the Wellingborough Iron Company, was formed in 1888 to take over Rixon's business. This new company significantly expanded the ironworks, and relaid the tramway on a new alignment, which passed under the Midland Railway line in a tunnel, and avoided running alongside the Finedon Road. Three new, larger steam locomotives were purchased and the original locomotives sold off. Quarrying operations expanded during

4352-406: Was granted a charter by Elizabeth I that exempted local landowners from tolls (the fee paid by travellers to use the long-distance public roads), dues (an early form of income tax) and gave all men the right to refuse to serve in the local militia. A popular legend is that the Queen was hunting in Rockingham Forest when she (dependent on the legend) either fell from her horse or became trapped in

4420-426: Was more successful than their brickworks, and they installed a blast furnace at the western end of the tramway in order to maximise profits from their ore. They expanded the leases of land to the south and west of Finedon, and extended their tramway to over 4 miles. 1884 also saw the purchase of two steam locomotives to operate the tramway, the second arriving in 1887. Despite their booming iron trade, Rixon's company

4488-437: Was not until 1975 that a closure programme was agreed after a 14-month review by Lord Beswick, the then Minister of State for Industry. Corby was not one of the Beswick Plants that were to close in the review. By this time BSC was plunging into loss and important parts of the investment programme was held back. The European Union, Davignon Plan, had also asked for Steel Capacity in Europe to be significantly reduced. In May 1979,

4556-495: Was planned. A crater on Mars discovered in the late 1970s was named after Corby, in reference to a famous transcript of a conversation in June 1969 between the crew of the Apollo 11 mission and mission control, whereby world news was relayed to the crew, amongst it was the news that "in Corby, an Irishman named John Coyle won the World's Porridge Eating Championship by consuming 23 bowls of instant oatmeal in 10 minutes". The reply from Apollo 11: "I'd like to enter Aldrin in

4624-410: Was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Corbei". Corby's emblem, the raven , derives from an alternative meaning of this word. These Danish roots were recognised in the naming of the most southern of the town's housing estates, Danesholme, around which one of the Danish settlements was located. Corby was granted the right to hold two annual fairs and a market by Henry III in 1226. In 1568 Corby

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