TOWCESTER  , a

market town in the southern parliamentary division of Northamptonshire, England, 8 m . S.S.W. of Northampton, on the East & West Junction and the Northampton & Banbury Junction railways . Pop . (19or), 2371 . It is pleasantly situated on the small river Tove, a left-bank affluent of the Ouse . The church of St Lawrence is a good Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular building, with a fine western Perpendicular tower . There are a considerable agricultural trade and a manufacture of boots and shoes . Here was a Roman town or village situated on Watling Street . The site has yielded a considerable number of relics . In the loth century a fortress was maintained here against the invading Danes . The site of both this and the Roman station is marked by an artificial mound known as Burg Hill, not far from the church, above the river . Towcester, with the whole of this district, witnessed a large part of the operations during the Civil War of the 17th century .