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Wellingborough

British  
/ ˈwɛlɪŋbərə, -brə /

noun

  1. a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)

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Corinna is worried about her partner Sam, who is serving a sentence for a financial crime at the Category C male resettlement prison in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

They said she had moved from Poland to the UK in 2010 and had worked in a warehouse in Wellingborough to bring home money for her family.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025

The rapper, of Wellingborough Road, Northampton, was removed from the line-up of Glastonbury Festival, as well Reading and Leeds, after he was charged in 2023.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024

The 74-year-old, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, was recognised with the royal honour for her services to athletics at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

A Mr. Thomas Andrews, of the University of Cambridge, was ejected from the vicarage of Wellingborough.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas