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Earls Barton is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, notable for its Anglo-Saxon church and shoe-making heritage. The village is in the Borough of Wellingborough. At the time of the 2011 census, the population was 5,387. Earls Barton is renowned for its remarkable Anglo-Saxon heritage. 〔(Office for National Statistics: Earls Barton CP: Parish headcounts ) Retrieved 16th July 2015.〕 ==History== The first Anglo-Saxon settlement at Earls Barton was one of various settlements built on a spring-line on the northern bank of the River Nene. The site is on a spur above the flood plain. Originally (i.e. before 600 AD) the Anglo-Saxon village was known as ''Bere-tun'' - which means "a place for growing Barley." Following the Norman invasion, the Domesday Book records the village as being called ''Buarton(e)'', with Countess Judith, the King's niece is listed as both the land and mill owner. She married Waltheof, son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria who in 1065 AD became Earl of Northampton - it was from these links and with another Earl - the Earl of Huntingdon, that gave the village its prefix "Erles" from 1261 AD. In ''The King's England: Northamptonshire'', edited by Arthur Mee, it notes that: Nikolaus Pevsner however, seems to disagree with this assessment and describes it as: He goes on to argue that the castle was founded at the time of the Norman conquest of England and its builder ignored the then existing church, leaving it in its bailey, for a later demolition that never happened. In the 14th and 15th centuries a major change took place in the local economy, when sheep rearing gave prominence to the manufacture of woollen cloth, which remained a major cottage industry until the shift to the newly industrialised north several centuries later. Another change took place in the 13th century when shoes began to be made from leather bought in nearby Northampton. At this time the village had its own tanyard, which remained in operation until 1984. The census of 1801 shows that the population had by then grown to 729. By 1850 the population had trebled. (Barker ) have been making shoes in Earls Barton since 1880; Barkers built a new factory and offices in 1986 in the centre of the village. Between 1913 and 1921 ironstone was quarried locally with the ore being removed either by train or by an aerial ropeway. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earls Barton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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