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Oundle is an ancient market town on the River Nene in Northamptonshire, England, with a population at the 2011 census of 5,735.〔(Office for National Statistics: Oundle CP: Parish headcounts ) Retrieved 16 July 2015.〕 It is situated north of London and south-west of Peterborough. The nearest railway station is at Corby, west of Oundle. ==History== Inhabited since the Iron Age, Oundle was originally a trading place and market for local farmers and craftsmen. The Saxon invasion saw the arrival of a tribe called ''Undalas'' which possibly meant ''undivided''. It is the death place of St Wilfrid in 709 AD where he had consecrated a church as well as being the location of one of his monasteries. The current St Peter's Church occupies the same site as St Wilfrid's original church. Saint Cetta or Cett was a 7th-century saint and is the Patron Saint of Oundle. Very little is known of him, but according to the Anglo-Saxon hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,〔() 〕 he was from around 1000AD, ''buried in the monastery at Oundle near the River Nene'', and a chapel to St Cett was built in the 11th century, on the small knoll beyond the end of St Sythes Lane. The presence of this shrine and the market charter, explain much of the growth of Oundle in the 12th century. The Domesday Book records Oundle in Polebrook hundred with a population of 36 households, a mill and a value in 1066 of £0.3, which had risen to £11 by 1086. As the area became prosperous, wealthy traders set up shops and houses, and guilds were formed. Unlike other settlements in the vicinity, Oundle was unaffected by the Black Death in the mid-14th century. Oundle had a grammar school since at least 1465, at which Sir William Laxton (Lord Mayor of London) was educated. He founded Laxton Grammar School in 1556, administered by the Worshipful Company of Grocers, from which Oundle School evolved. In 1743 a group of mutineers from the Black Watch were captured at Ladywood, near Oundle. They had deserted in protest at being sent abroad, instead of patrolling the Highlands, for which the regiment had been raised. 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「Oundle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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