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Corby

Borough of Corby
Shown within Northamptonshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East Midlands
Admin. County:	Northamptonshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 263rd 80.28 km²
Admin. HQ:	Corby
ONS code:	34UB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 335th 53,741 669 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.3% White
Politics
Corby Borough Council http://www.corby.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Labour
MP:	Phil Hope

Corby is an industrial town and a local government district located in Northamptonshire, England.

In 1931 Corby was a small village with a population of around 1,500. Corby grew rapidly into a reasonable sized industrial town, when a Scottish steel firm located to the then village in the mid-1930s, bringing most of their Scottish employees with them. Due to this, many Corby residents today speak with a Scottish accent, despite being in the English Midlands. Steel production was for many years the town's main industry.

Corby was designated a new town in the 1950s and the town grew further. The steel industry went into decline in the 1980s.

Corby crater on Mars is named after Corby. .

Districts of England - East Midlands
Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Blaby | Bolsover | Boston | Broxtowe | Charnwood | Chesterfield | Corby | Daventry | Derby | Derbyshire Dales | East Lindsey | East Northamptonshire | Erewash | Gedling | Harborough | High Peak | Hinckley and Bosworth | Kettering | Leicester | Lincoln | Mansfield | Melton | Newark and Sherwood | Northampton | North East Derbyshire | North Kesteven | North West Leicestershire | Nottingham | Oadby and Wigston | Rushcliffe | Rutland | South Derbyshire | South Holland | South Kesteven | South Northamptonshire | Wellingborough | West Lindsey
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Derbyshire - Leicestershire - Lincolnshire - Northamptonshire - Nottinghamshire