Brackley

Brackley is a town in Northamptonshire, England, 22 miles from Oxford and 20 miles from Northampton. Generally a market town dependent on the fleece and trim exchange, it was based on the crossing exchange courses between London, Birmingham and the Midlands and Cambridge and Oxford. Brackley is near Silverstone and home to the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team. Brackley, initially otherwise called Brachelai or Brackele, was held in 1086 by Earl Alberic. After this it go to the Earl of Leicester, and to the groups of De Quincy and Roland. It was recorded in the Doomsday book.

In the 11th and 12th centuries Brackley was in the Hundred of Odboldistow and in the Manor of Halse. Richard I The Lionheart named five authority destinations for jousting tournaments with the goal that such occasions couldn't be utilized as nearby wars, and Brackley was one of these. The competition site is accepted to be toward the south of the chateau where the A422 presently passes. The town was the site of a vital gathering between the nobles and delegates of the King in 1215, the time of Magna Carta. Magna Carta required King John to announce rights, regard laws and acknowledge that the King's desires were liable to law.