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About Towcester

Towcester the Roman town of Lactodorum, is a small town in south Northamptonshire, England. Towcester comes from the Old English Tófe-ceaster. Tófe refers to the River Tove; Bosworth and Toller compare it to the "Scandinavian proper names" Tófi and Tófa. The Old English ceaster comes from the Latin castra ("camp") and was "often applied to places in Britain which had been originally Roman encampments. Thus, Towcester means "Camp on the (river) Tove." The population was 8,856 at the time of the 2001 census but has since rapidly expanded and there are plans to expand still further with another 3,300 houses equating to an appx 8,250 increase in population. With normal growth this could see the total population rise to around 20,000 people by 2020. The expansion will include an A5 north-south bypass west of the town and improvements to the links to the A43.

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