Aylesbury
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 ′ N , 0 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 58,740 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | AYLESBURY | ||
| ZIP code section | HP19, HP20, HP21 | ||
| prefix | 01296 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Unitary authority | Buckinghamshire | ||
| Website: http://www.aylesburytowncouncil.gov.uk/ | |||
Aylesbury is the capital of the English county of Buckinghamshire and has 58,740 inhabitants (2011). The city lies in the Unitary Authority Buckinghamshire, of which it is also the capital. The River Thame flows north of the city.
history
The name of the city comes from Anglo-Saxon ; However, excavations in the city center in the early 1990s have shown that here as early as 1500 BC. Was a settlement. Aylesbury was one of the most important market towns of the Anglo-Saxon period and is listed in the Domesday Book .
Aylesbury was named Buckinghamshire county capital in 1529 by Henry VIII . Previously this had been Buckingham , but the lands around Aylesbury belonged to Anne Boleyn's father and it is believed that Henry VIII wanted to improve his relations with her father.
During the English Civil War , the city played an important role as a fortress for parliamentary forces.
The Jacobean manor house at Hartwell near Aylesbury was the residence of Louis XVIII. during his exile (1810-1814). The town also received international attention in the 1960s when the perpetrators of the 1963 Aylesbury railway robbery were convicted.
The number of inhabitants has doubled since the 1960s.
Trade and industry
The market town of Aylesbury was a trading center back to the Anglo-Saxons. This is due to the city's location on Akeman Street , which connected London to the south-west.
Grain has been grown in the city since 1477 . Until modern times it was an important branch of industry; the last mill closed in the 1970s.
1560 around making was needles into a significant economic factor has become, because they were produced only in Aylesbury.
In 1672 the poor children were taught to make lace in order to provide them with an income. Buckinghamshire lace ( Bucks lace ) was in great demand and manufacturing, mainly done by poor women and children, grew significantly. Manual lace making died out in the Victorian Age when machine-made lace was preferred.
After Aylesbury was connected to the Grand Union Canal in 1814 , this brought new industries to the city. Until the late 19th century, the Hazell, Watson and Viney book printing and binderies and the Nestlé dairy were the city's largest employers - more than half of the population worked in these factories.
Aylesbury is still an important trading center today. Nestlé, as well as Hazell, Watson and Viney are no longer in the city, but three industrial centers ensure that the city has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
Town twinning
Aylesbury has a twin town in France: Bourg-en-Bresse in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region .
sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Apted (* 1941), film director
- Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), composer
- Emmerson Boyce (born 1979), football player
- Liam Gillick (* 1964), painter, sculptor and object artist
- Martin Grech (* 1982), Maltese-British singer-songwriter
- John Otway (born 1952), songwriter and singer
- Matt Phillips (born 1991), football player
- Christopher Smith (* 1965), ancient historian
- Frederick Taylor (* 1947), historian
- Danny Watts (* 1979), British racing driver
- Ellen Toni White (* 1989), soccer player
- Simon Wigg (1960-2000), track athlete
- Anthony Wootton (1935–1988), animal and nature author
The band Marillion is also deeply rooted in the city and has a studio in the city.
