Daventry

Daventry is a market town on the western uplands of Northamptonshire, close to the Warwickshire border. Its trades served a district where farming remained important, and by the late sixteenth century local craftsmen had organised themselves into companies. A royal charter of 1576 incorporated the borough, giving the town a new framework of local government. The market square, church and remains of a suppressed priory formed the centre of the small town.