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Evacuees

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
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

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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