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Coordinates: 52°17′N 0°50′W / 52.283°N 0.833°W
Northamptonshire 
Geography Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county Region East Midlands Area
- Total
- Admin. councilRanked 24th
2,364 km2 (913 sq mi)
Ranked 22ndAdmin HQ Northampton ISO 3166-2 GB-NTH ONS code 34 NUTS 3 UKF23 Demography Population
- Total (2010 est.)
- Density
- Admin. councilRanked 33rd
687,300
291 /km2 (750 /sq mi)
Ranked 15thEthnicity 95.1% White
2.0% South Asian
1.2% Black British.Politics 
Northamptonshire County Council
http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Executive Conservative Members of Parliament - Brian Binley (C)
- Peter Bone (C)
- Michael Ellis (C)
- Chris Heaton-Harris (C)
- Philip Hollobone (C)
- Andrea Leadsom (C)
- Louise Mensch (C)
Districts 
Northamptonshire (
/nɔrˈθæmptənʃər/ or /nɔrθˈhæmptənʃɪər/; archaically, the County of Northampton; abbreviated Northants. or N/hants) is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the north-east – England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (21 yd).[1] The county town is Northampton with the other main towns being Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden and Daventry.Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip.
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History
Main article: History of NorthamptonshireMuch of Northamptonshire’s countryside appears to have remained somewhat intractable with regards to early human occupation, resulting in an apparently sparse population and relatively few finds from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.[2] In about 500 BC the Iron Age was introduced into the area by a continental people in the form of the Hallstatt culture,[3] and over the next century a series of hill-forts were constructed at Arbury Camp, Rainsborough camp, Borough Hill, Castle Dykes, Guilsborough, Irthlingborough, and most notably of all, Hunsbury Hill. There are two more possible hill-forts at Arbury Hill (Badby) and Thenford.[3]
In the 1st century BC, most of what later became Northamptonshire became part of the territory of the Catuvellauni, a Belgic tribe, the Northamptonshire area forming their most northerly possession.[3] The Catuvellauni were in turn conquered by the Romans in 43 AD.[4]
The Roman road of Watling Street passed through the county, and an important Roman settlement, Lactodorum, stood on the site of modern-day Towcester. There were other Roman settlements at Northampton, Kettering and along the Nene Valley near Raunds. A large fort was built at Longthorpe.[3]
After the Romans left, the area eventually became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and Northampton functioned as an administrative centre. The Mercians converted to Christianity in 654 AD with the death of the pagan king Penda.[5] From about 889 the area was conquered by the Danes (as at one point almost all of England was, except for Athelney marsh in Somerset) and became part of the Danelaw - with Watling Street serving as the boundary - until being recaptured by the English under the Wessex king Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, in 917. Northamptonshire was conquered again in 940, this time by the Vikings of York, who devastated the area, only for the county to be retaken by the English in 942.[6] Consequently, it is one of the few counties in England to have both Saxon and Danish town-names and settlements.[citation needed]
The county was first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1011), as Hamtunscire: the scire (shire) of Hamtun (the homestead). The "North" was added to distinguish Northampton from the other important Hamtun further south: Southampton - though the origins of the two names are in fact different.[7]
Rockingham Castle was built for William the Conqueror[8] and was used as a Royal fortress until Elizabethan times. The now-ruined Fotheringhay Castle was used to imprison Mary, Queen of Scots, before her execution.[9] In 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Northampton took place and King Henry VI was captured.[10]
John Speed's 17th century map of Northamptonshire
George Washington, the first President of the United States of America, was born into the Washington family who had migrated to America from Northamptonshire in 1656. George Washington's great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Lawrence Washington, was Mayor of Northampton on several occasions and it was he who bought Sulgrave Manor from Henry VIII in 1539. It was George Washington's great-grandfather, John Washington, who emigrated in 1656 from Northants to Virginia. Before Washington's ancestors moved to Sulgrave, they lived in Warton, Lancashire.[11]
During the English Civil War, Northamptonshire strongly supported the Parliamentarian cause, and the Royalist forces suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Naseby in 1645 in the north of the county. King Charles I was imprisoned at Holdenby House in 1647.[12]
In 1823 Northamptonshire was said to "[enjoy] a very pure and wholesome air" because of its dryness and distance from the sea. Its livestock were celebrated: "Horned cattle, and other animals, are fed to extraordinary sizes: and many horses of the large black breed are reared."[13]
Nine years later, the county was described as "a county enjoying the reputation of being one of the healthiest and pleasantest parts of England" although the towns were "of small importance" with the exceptions of Peterborough and Northampton. In summer, the county hosted "a great number of wealthy families... country seats and villas are to be seen at every step."[14] Northamptonshire is still referred to as the county of "spires and squires" because of the numbers of stately homes and ancient churches.[15]
In the 18th and 19th centuries, parts of Northamptonshire and the surrounding area became industrialised. The local specialisation was shoemaking and the leather industry and by the end of the 19th century it was almost definitively the boot and shoe making capital of the world.[citation needed] In the north of the county a large ironstone quarrying industry developed from 1850.[16] During the 1930s, the town of Corby was established as a major centre of the steel industry. Much of Northamptonshire nevertheless remains largely rural.[citation needed]
Corby was designated a new town in 1950[17] and Northampton followed in 1968.[18] As of 2005[update] the government is encouraging development in the South Midlands area, including Northamptonshire.[19]
Peterborough
The Soke of Peterborough was historically associated with and considered part of Northamptonshire, as the county diocese is focused upon the cathedral there.[20] However, Peterborough had its own county council, and in 1965 was merged with the neighbouring small county of Huntingdonshire.[21] Under the Local Government Act 1972 the city of Peterborough became a district of Cambridgeshire.[22]
Geography
Main article: List of places in Northamptonshire
Kings SuttonNotable places in and around Northamptonshire 
Kilworth Wharf on the Grand Union CanalNorthamptonshire is a landlocked county located in the southern part of the East Midlands region[23] which is sometimes known as the South Midlands. The county contains the watershed between the River Severn and The Wash while several important rivers have their sources in the north-west of the county, including the River Nene, which flows north-eastwards to The Wash, and the "Warwickshire Avon", which flows south-west to the Severn. In 1830 it was boasted that "not a single brook, however insignificant, flows into it from any other district".[24] The highest point in the county is Arbury Hill at 225 metres (738 ft).[25]
There are several towns in the county with Northampton being the largest and most populous. At the time of the 2008 estimates, a population of 685,000 lived in the county with 205,200 living in Northampton. The table below shows all towns with over 9,000 inhabitants.
Rank Town Population Borough/District council 1 Northampton 205,200 (2008) Northampton Borough Council 2 Kettering 51,063 (2001)[26] Kettering Borough Council 3 Corby 49,222 (2001)[26] Corby Borough Council 4 Wellingborough 46,959 (2001)[26] Borough Council of Wellingborough 5 Rushden 25,849 (2001) East Northamptonshire District Council 6 Daventry 22,367 (2001) Daventry District Council 7 Brackley 13,331 (2001) South Northamptonshire District Council As of 2010 there are 16 settlements in Northamptonshire with a town charter:
- Brackley, Burton Latimer, Corby, Daventry, Desborough, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Kettering, Northampton, Oundle, Raunds, Rothwell, Rushden, Towcester, Thrapston and Wellingborough.
Climate
Like the rest of the British Isles, Northamptonshire has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification). The table below shows the average weather for Northamptonshire from the Moulton weather station.
Climate data for Moulton, Northants Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average high °C (°F) 7
(45)8
(46)11
(52)13
(55)17
(63)19
(66)22
(72)23
(73)19
(66)14
(57)10
(50)7
(45)14.2
(57.5)Average low °C (°F) 2
(36)2
(36)4
(39)4
(39)7
(45)10
(50)12
(54)12
(54)10
(50)8
(46)5
(41)3
(37)6.6
(43.8)Precipitation cm (inches) 4.51
(1.776)3.39
(1.335)2.87
(1.13)4.39
(1.728)3.49
(1.374)4.66
(1.835)4.21
(1.657)4.69
(1.846)5.49
(2.161)5.68
(2.236)4.8
(1.89)4.98
(1.961)53.16
(20.929)Source: [27] Governance
Northamptonshire, like most English counties, is divided into a number of local authorities. The seven borough/district councils cover 15 towns and hundreds of villages. The county has a two-tier structure of local government and an elected county council based in Northampton, and is also divided into seven districts each with their own district or borough councils:[28]
Northampton itself is the most populous urban district in England not to be administered as a unitary authority (even though several smaller districts are unitary). During the 1990s local government reform, Northampton Borough Council petitioned strongly for unitary status, which led to fractured relations with the County Council.[citation needed]
Before 1974, the Soke of Peterborough was considered geographically part of Northamptonshire, although it had had a separate county council since the late 19th Century and separate Quarter Sessions courts before then. Now part of Cambridgeshire, the city of Peterborough became a unitary authority in 1998, but it continues to form part of that county for ceremonial purposes.[29]
National representation
Northamptonshire returns seven members of Parliament, who all are part of the Conservative Party.[30]
Constituency Member of Parliament Political party Corby Louise Mensch Conservative Daventry Chris Heaton-Harris Conservative Kettering Philip Hollobone Conservative Northampton North Michael Ellis Conservative Northampton South Brian Binley Conservative Northamptonshire South Andrea Leadsom Conservative Wellingborough & Rushden Peter Bone Conservative From 1993 until 2005, Northamptonshire County Council,[31] for which each of the 73 electoral divisions in the county elect a single councillor, had been held by the Labour Party; previously it had been under no overall control since 1981. The councils of the rural districts – Daventry, East Northamptonshire, and South Northamptonshire – are strongly Conservative, whereas the political composition of the urban districts is more mixed. At the 2003 local elections, Labour lost control of Kettering, Northampton, and Wellingborough, retaining only Corby. Elections for the entire County Council are held every four years – the last were held on 5 May 2005 when control of the County Council changed from the Labour Party to the Conservatives. The County Council uses a leader and cabinet executive system and abolished its area committees in April 2006.
Economy
Main article: History of Northamptonshire#Economy
Silverstone adds millions every year to the local economy - Kimi Räikkönen testing for McLaren at Silverstone in April 2006Historically, Northamptonshire's main industry was the manufacture of boots and shoes.[32] Many of the manufacturers closed down in the Thatcher era which in turn left many county people unemployed.[citation needed] Although R Griggs and Co Ltd, the manufacturer of Dr. Martens, still has its UK base in Wollaston near Wellingborough,[33] the shoe industry in the county is now nearly gone. Large employers include the breakfast cereal manufacturers Weetabix, in Burton Latimer, the Carlsberg brewery in Northampton, Avon Products, Siemens, Barclaycard, Saxby Bros Ltd and Golden Wonder.[34][35] In the west of the county is the Daventry International Railfreight Terminal;[36] which is a major rail freight terminal located on the West Coast Main Line near Rugby. Wellingborough also has a smaller railfreight depot[37] on Finedon Road, called Nelisons sidings.[38]
This is a chart of trend of the regional gross value added of Northamptonshire at current basic prices in millions of British Pounds Sterling (correct on 21 December 2005):[39]
Year Regional Gross Value Added[40] Agriculture[41] Industry[42] Services[43] 1995 6,139 112 2,157 3,870 2000 9,743 79 3,035 6,630 2003 10,901 90 3,260 7,551 The region of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and the South Midlands has been described as "Motorsport Valley... a global hub" for the motor sport industry.[44][45] The Mercedes GP[46] and Force India[47] Formula One teams have their bases at Brackley and Silverstone respectively, while Cosworth[48] and Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines[49] are also in the county at Northampton and Brixworth.
International motor racing takes place at Silverstone Circuit[50] and Rockingham Motor Speedway;[51] Santa Pod Raceway is just over the border in Bedfordshire but has a Northants postcode.[52] A study commissioned by Northamptonshire Enterprise Ltd (NEL) reported that Northamptonshire's motorsport sites attract more than 2.1 million visitors per year who spend a total of more than £131 million within the county.[53]
Milton Keynes and South Midlands Growth area
Main article: South MidlandsNorthamptonshire forms part of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Growth area which also includes Milton Keynes, Aylesbury Vale and Bedfordshire. This area has been identified as an area which is due to have tens of thousands additional homes built between 2010-2020. In North Northamptonshire (Boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough and East Northants), over 52,000 homes are planned or newly-built and 47,000 new jobs are also planned.[54] In West Northamptonshire (boroughs of Northampton, Daventry and South Northants), over 48,000 homes are planned or newly-built and 37,000 new jobs are planned.[55] To overlook the planned developments, two urban regeneration companies have been created: North Northants Development Company (NNDC)[54] and the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation.[55] The NNDC launched a controversial[56] campaign called North Londonshire to attract people from London to the county.[57] There is also a county-wide tourism campaign with the slogan Northamptonshire, Let yourself grow.[58]
Education
Main article: List of schools in NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire County Council operates a complete comprehensive system with 42 state secondary schools.[59] The county's music and performing arts service provides peripatetic music teaching to schools. It also supports 15 local Saturday morning music and performing arts centres around the county[60] and provides a range of county-level music groups.[61]
Colleges
There are seven colleges across the county, with the Tresham College of Further and Higher Education having four campuses in three towns: Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough.[62] Tresham provides further education and offers vocational courses, GCSEs and A Levels.[63] It also offers Higher Education options in conjunction with several universities.[64] Other colleges in the county are: Fletton House, Knuston Hall, Moulton College, Northampton College, Northampton New College and The East Northamptonshire College.
University
Northamptonshire has one University, the University of Northampton. It has two campuses 2.5 miles (4.0 km) apart and 10,000 students.[65] It offers courses for needs and interests from foundation and undergraduate level to postgraduate, professional and doctoral qualifications. Subjects include traditional arts, humanities and sciences subjects, as well as entrepreneurship, product design and advertising.[66]
Healthcare
Hospitals
Northampton has several National Health Service branches,[citation needed] the main acute NHS hospitals in the county being Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals. In the south-west of the county, the town of Brackley and surrounding villages are serviced by the Horton General Hospital in Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire for acute medical needs. A similar arrangement is in place for the town of Oundle and nearby villages, served by Peterborough District Hospital.
In February 2011 a new satellite out-patient centre opened at Nene Park, Irthlingborough to provide over 40,000 appointments a year, as well as a minor injury unit to serve Eastern Northamptonshire. This was opened to relieve pressure off Kettering General Hospital, and has also replaced the dated Rushden Memorial Clinic which provided at the time about 8,000 appointments a year, when open. [67]
Water contamination
In June 2008, Anglian Water found traces of Cryptosporidium in water supplies of Northamptonshire. The local reservoir at Pitsford was investigated and a European Rabbit which had strayed into it was found,[68] causing the problem. About 250,000 residents were affected;[69] by 14 July 2008, 13 cases of cryptosporidiosis attributed to water in Northampton had been reported.[70] Following the end of the investigation, Anglian Water lifted its boil notice for all affected areas on 4 July 2008.[71] Anglian Water revealed that it will pay up to £30 per household as compensation for customers hit by the water crisis.[72]
Transport
Main article: East Midlands#Transport
Brackley bypass on the A43The gap in the hills at Watford Gap meant that many south-east to north-west routes passed through Northamptonshire. The Roman Road Watling Street (now part of the A5) passes through here, as did later canals, railways and major roads.
Roads
Major national roads including the M1 motorway (London to Leeds) and the A14 (Rugby to Ipswich), provide Northamptonshire with transport links, both north–south and east–west. The A43 joins the M1 to the M40 motorway, passing through the south of the county to the junction west of Brackley, and the A45 links Northampton with Wellingborough and Peterborough.
The county road network, managed by Northamptonshire County Council includes the A45 west of the M1 motorway, the A43 between Northampton and the county boundary near Stamford, the A361 between Kilsby and Banbury (Oxon) and all B, C and Unclassified Roads. Since 2009 these highways have been managed on behalf of the county council by MGWSP, a joint venture between May Gurney and WSP.
Rivers and canals
The Grand Union Canal at BraunstonFurther information: Category:Rivers of NorthamptonshireTwo major canals – the Oxford and the Grand Union – join in the county at Braunston. Notable features include a flight of 17 locks on the Grand Union at Rothersthorpe, the canal museum at Stoke Bruerne, and a tunnel at Blisworth which, at 2,813 metres (3,076 yd), is the third-longest navigable canal tunnel on the UK canal network.
A branch of the Grand Union Canal connects to the River Nene in Northampton and has been upgraded to a "wide canal" in places and is known as the Nene Navigation. It is famous for its guillotine locks.
Railways
A East Midlands Trains service approaching Wellingborough on the Midland Main LineTwo trunk railway routes, the Midland Main Line and the West Coast Main Line, cross the county. At its peak, Northamptonshire had 75 railway stations. It now has only six, at Northampton and Long Buckby on the West Coast Main Line, Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby on the Midland Main Line, along with King's Sutton, which is a few metres from the boundary with Oxfordshire on the Chiltern Main Line.
Before nationalisation of the railways in 1948 and the creation of British Railways, three of the "Big Four" railway companies operated in Northamptonshire: the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London and North Eastern Railway and Great Western Railway. Only the Southern Railway was not represented. As of 2010 it is served by Virgin Trains, London Midland, Chiltern Railways and East Midlands Trains.
- Corby rail history
Corby was described as the largest town in Britain without a railway station.[73] The railway running through the town from Kettering to Oakham in Rutland was previously used only by freight traffic and occasional diverted passenger trains that did not stop at the station. The line through Corby was once part of a main line to Nottingham through Melton Mowbray, but the stretch between Melton and Nottingham was closed in 1968. In the 1980s, an experimental passenger shuttle service ran between Corby and Kettering but was withdrawn a few years later.[74] On 23 February 2009, a new railway station opened, providing direct hourly access to London St Pancras. Following the opening of Corby Station, Rushden then became the largest town in the UK without a direct railway station.
- Closed lines and stations
Railway services in Northamptonshire were reduced by the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.[75] Closure of the line connecting Northampton to Peterborough by way of Wellingborough, Thrapston, and Oundle left eastern Northamptonshire devoid of railways. Part of this route was reopened in 1977 as the Nene Valley Railway. A section of one of the closed lines, the Northampton to Market Harborough line, is now the Northampton & Lamport heritage railway, while the route as a whole forms a part of the National Cycle Network, as the Brampton Valley Way.
As early as 1897 Northamptonshire would have had its own Channel Tunnel rail link with the creation of the Great Central Railway, which was intended to connect to a tunnel under the English Channel. Although the complete project never came to fruition, the rail link through Northamptonshire was constructed, and had stations at Charwelton, Woodford Halse, Helmdon and Brackley. It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 (and of British Railways in 1948) before its closure in 1966.[citation needed]
- Future
In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) recommended opening a new station on the former Irchester railway station site for Rushden, Higham Ferrers and Irchester, called Rushden Parkway.[76] Network Rail is looking at electrifying the Midland Main Line north of Bedford.[77] A open access company has approached Network Rail for services to Oakham in Rutland to London via the county.[77]
The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway would like to see the railway fully reopen between Wellingborough and Higham Ferrers. As part of the government-proposed High Speed 2 railway line (between London and Birmingham), the High speed railway line will go through the southern part of the county but with no station built.
Buses
Sywell AerodromeMost buses are operated by Stagecoach in Northants and First Northampton. Some town area routes have been named the Corby Star, Connect Kettering, Connect Wellingborough and Daventry Dart; the last three of these routes have route designations that include a letter, such as A, D1, W1, W2, and so on.[78][79]
Airports
Sywell Aerodrome, on the edge of Sywell village, has three grass runways and one concrete all weather runway. It is however only 1000 metres and therefore cannot be served by passenger jets as of yet.[80]
Media
BBC Radio Northampton's Broadcasting HouseNewspapers
The two main newspapers in the county are the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.[citation needed]
Television
- BBC regions
Most of Northamptonshire is served by the BBC's East region which is based in Norwich. The regional news television programme, BBC Look East, provides local news across the East of England, Milton Keynes and most of Northamptonshire. An opt-out in Look East covers the west part of the region only, broadcast from Cambridge. This area also is covered by the BBC's The Politics Show: East and Inside Out: East. A small part of the northern part of the county is covered by BBC East Midlands's regional news BBC East Midlands Today, while a small part of South Northamptonshire is covered by BBC Oxford's regional news BBC Oxford News which is part of the BBC South Today programme.[citation needed]
- ITV regions
Most of Northamptonshire is covered by ITV's Anglia region (which broadcasts Anglia Today/Tonight); in the south-west of the county, primarily Brackley and the surrounding villages, broadcasts can be received from the Oxford transmitter which broadcasts ITV Meridian's Meridian Today/Tonight.
Radio
BBC Radio Northampton, broadcasts on two FM frequencies: 104.2 MHz for the south and west of the county (including Northampton and surrounding area) and 103.6 MHz for the north of the county (including Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby). BBC Radio Northampton is located in Abington Street, Northampton. These services are broadcast from the Sandy Heath transmitter in Bedfordshire.
There are three commercial radio stations in the county. The former Kettering and Corby Broadcasting Company (KCBC) station is now called Connect Radio (97.2 and 107.4 MHZ FM), following a merger with the Wellingborough-based station of the same name. While both Heart Northants (96.6 MHz FM) and AM station Gold (1557 kHz) air very little local content as they form part of a national network. National digital radio is also available in Northamptonshire, though coverage is limited.[citation needed]
Sport
Statue inscribed ‘They tackled the job’ outside Franklin's GardensRugby Union
Northamptonshire has many rugby union clubs. Its premier team, Northampton Saints, competes in the Aviva Premiership and won the European championship in 2000 by defeating Munster for the Heineken Cup, 9-8. Saints are based at the 13,600 capacity Franklin's Gardens ground.
Football
Northamptonshire has several football teams, the most prominent being the League Two side Northampton Town. Other football teams include Kettering Town and Rushden & Diamonds, who are in the Conference National & Corby Town, who are in the Conference North. Wellingborough Town claims to be the sixth oldest club in the country.[citation needed]
Cricket
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is in Division Two of the County Championship. Northamptonshire Cricket Club has recently signed overseas professionals such as Sourav Ganguly.10 November 2011
Motor Sport
Silverstone is a major motor racing circuit, most notably used for the British Grand Prix. There is also a dedicated radio station for the circuit which broadcasts on 87.7 FM or 1602 MW when events are taking place. Rockingham Speedway Corby is the largest stadium in the UK with 130,000 seats. It is a US-style elliptical racing circuit (the largest of its kind outside of the US), and is used extensively for all kinds of motor racing events. The Santa Pod drag racing circuit, venue for the FIA European Drag Racing Championships is just across the border in Bedfordshire but has a NN postcode.
Swimming
There is five main swimming clubs in the county: Wellingborough, Northampton, Kettering, Daventry and Rushden. They compete in many compotitions and come against each other in the Wilkinson Sword Trophy.
Culture
Rock and pop bands originating in the area have included Bauhaus, The Departure and New Cassettes.
Places of interest
See also: Category:Visitor attractions in NorthamptonshireKey 
Abbey/Priory/Cathedral 
Accessible open space 
Amusement/Theme Park 
Castle 
Country Park 
English Heritage 
Forestry Commission 
Heritage railway 
Historic House 
Museum (free/not free) 
National Trust 
Zoo Annual events
- Gretton Barn dance
- British Grand Prix at Silverstone
- Burghley Horse Trials
- Crick Boat Show
- Hollowell Steam Rally
- Northampton Balloon Festival
- Rothwell Fair
- Rushden Cavalcade
- St Crispin Street Fair
- Wellingborough Carnival
- World Conker Championships
See also
- Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
- High Sheriff of Northamptonshire
- List of MPs for Northamptonshire
- List of places in Northamptonshire
- History of Northamptonshire
- East Midlands
- South Midlands
- Category:People from Northamptonshire
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External links
- http://www.northamptonshireforum.co.uk/
- Northamptonshire County Council
- Northamptonshire at the Open Directory Project
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- Northants Forum
- Local Theatre in Northamptonshire
- Northamptonshire History Website
- Northamptonshire Tourism Website
- Northamptonshire Guide Website
- Visit Northamptonshire Website
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