Kettering - Definition and Overview

This is an article about Kettering in England. For other uses see Kettering (disambiguation).

Kettering is a town in Northamptonshire, England. It is the main town in the borough of Kettering. It lies on the Midland Main Line, roughly halfway between London and Leicester. It is home to Pegasus Software and Wicksteed Park, the United Kingdom's oldest theme park, believed to be unique in the fact that its only theme is that of "a park", i.e. it is a Park, styled to look more like a park.

Its MP is Phil Sawford, Labour.

It was once the centre of the British boot and shoe manufacturing trade, but this has now all but disappeared. The local firm Loake Bros., however, has seen an upturn in its production of quality hand-made shoes.

In the book The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, described as a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet", Kettering is descriptive of the marks on one's bottom caused by sunbathing in a wicker chair.

Kettering is also a top ten engineering College located in Flint Michigan, formerly GMI ( General Motors Institute )