- Far Cotton
Far Cotton, many years ago a village in its own right, is a district of the English
county town ofNorthampton .Far Cotton is due south of the town centre, beyond
Cotton End - hence the 'Far', and south of theRiver Nene . It is roughly rectangular in shape with the river and canal forming its northern boundary, the railway is western edge; with the A5076 ring road to its south and theA508 road andDelapré Abbey 's park to its east. Administratively Far Cotton is in thecivil parish ofHardingstone and theBorough of Northampton.Far Cotton expanded with the arrival of the railway at Northampton in the first half of the nineteenth century; the original line was entirely south of the Nene while the medieval town was north of the river. As part of the regeneration of the town, overseen by the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation, many brownfield sites in Far Cotton are undergoing redevelopment in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Notable residents
Chief Inspector
Walter Dew , who was involved in the hunt for bothJack the Ripper and Dr. Crippen, was born in the village in 1863.External links
* [http://cottonites.co.uk/ Far Cotton History Group]
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