Evening Telegraph, March 30th 1939
ROOM FOR 5,940 EVACUEES
Wellingborough Rural Area Report
If war comes, and it is necessary to evacuate city people to the country, Wellingborough rural area will be able to accommodate 5,940 persons.
Official returns, showing the number of people each village in the district can accommodate, have been made as follows:-
| Bozeat |
504
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| Great Doddington |
216
|
| Earls Barton |
1,595
|
| Easton Maudit |
66
|
| Ecton |
167
|
| Grendon |
143
|
| Hardwick |
28
|
| Great Harrowden |
26
|
| Little Harrowden |
229
|
| Irchester |
898
|
| Little Irchester |
245
|
| Isham |
143
|
| Mears Ashby |
125
|
| Newton Bromshold |
33
|
| Orlingbury |
93
|
| Strixton |
32
|
| Sywell |
94
|
| Wilby |
281
|
| Wollaston |
922
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The accuracy of the estimation made by Rural Council officials in the crisis last September is shown by the fact that there is only a short margin between the estimated figure (5,980) and the official return.
In the area there are 16,806 rooms.
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