page_title: Wollaston, Northamptonshire
section_title: 19th Century
hierarchical_section_title: Wollaston, Northamptonshire / History / 19th Century
context_page_description: Wollaston is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, about 3 miles south of the market town of Wellingborough. The 2011 census recorded the population of the parish, including Strixton, as 3,491.
  Wollaston is from 160 to 260 feet above sea level on hills east of the Nene valley. The soil is clay over subsoil and is on the old Wellingborough to London road. Summer Leys Local Nature reserve is nearby.
  The Domesday Book of 1086 records the toponym as Wilavestone. In a document written in 1190 it is spelt Wullaueston. The name comes from Old English and is believed to mean the farmstead or village of a man named Wulfaf.
context_section_description: Wollaston's first school opened in 1842 and was located in a building next to what is now the Indian restaurant (formerly The Cuckoo pub), opposite Bell End. The school was private and was run by a curate, the Reverend JJ Scott, from his own funds. The school did not come under government control until 1873. The school has moved several times, finally being established on College Street in a building dating from May 1894.
  In this period significant industry came to Wollaston in the form of shoe-making. In 1885 one of the shoe factories was established as a workers' co-operative of local cobblers, which survived until the 21st century as Northamptonshire Productive Society and remains a shoe factory as NPS (Shoes) Ltd, making shoes under the George Cox, Tredair, Solovair and NPS brands among others. The Wollaston Vulcanising Co-Operative was another local business.
caption: Wollaston Methodist Chapel
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