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The Parliamentary seat of 'Corby' was created due to population increases in and around the town of Corby for the 1983 general election. Since creation, the Corby constituency has been a marginal seat being won by the party that won the national election at each general election since its creation. The first Member of Parliament elected for the ...
Estate Image Dates Location: Size (units) Notes/Description; 1: Churchill Gardens: 1946–62 built Pimlico area of Westminster. 1,600 Designed by architects Powell and Moya to replace Victorian terraced houses extensively damaged during the Blitz; won RIBA London Architectural Bronze Medal (1950); model for many later projects.
Corby was once known as "Little Scotland" due to the large number of Scottish workers who came to its steelworks. [3] Corby has undergone regeneration with the opening of Corby railway station and Corby International Pool in 2009 and the Corby Cube in 2010. The Cube houses a 450-seat theatre, public library and other community amenities.
It bordered the East Northamptonshire district to the east, the Borough of Kettering to the south and west, the Harborough district of Leicestershire to the north-west, and the county of Rutland to the north-east. In 2021 the district had a population of 75,571. [2] The council, Corby Borough Council was based at the Cube in the town of Corby. [3]
Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building, the highest grade. [11] The estate has a number of other Grade I listed structures including: the eastern gate lodge and its walls and gate piers; [12] [13] the cascade which descends to the River Eden, [14] a dovecote; [15] a walled kitchen garden; [16] a set of salmon coops; [17] a small garden temple known as The Tempietto.
The former Greenwich constituency was a secure Labour Party seat for much of the twentieth century, though it had been a safe Liberal seat throughout most of the nineteenth century. In 1987 , it was gained by the Social Democratic Party at a by-election and narrowly regained by Labour five years later at the 1992 general election .
Today it thrives as the West Greenwich Community and Arts Centre; the building was recently restored and refurbished. [22] The 1939 Town Hall, further east from the 1876 building. In 1939, a new and much larger Greenwich Town Hall and Borough Hall were built on the corner of Greenwich High Road and Royal Hill in the Art Deco style
The estate is within the parish of Little Stanion, a new independent parish was established for the village on 1 April 2018. [ 3 ] The Little Stanion Village Association (LSVA) was established in 2011 to ensure that residents of the village had a central point to receive information, share their views and have their questions answered.