Twin Towns
Wellingborough is twinned with:
- Niort, France (1977)
- Wittlich, Germany.
and also has relations with Willingboro, township in Burlington County, New Jersey, USA, while Irchester and Grendon, two of the villages within the Borough of Wellingborough, have twin town partners at Coulon near Niort, and Bois-Bernard near Arras.
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