Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & Administrative County
Region:	East Midlands
Area: - Total - Admin. council	Ranked 24th 2,364 km² Ranked 22nd
Admin HQ:	Northampton
:	GB-NTH
ONS code:	34
NUTS 3:	UKF23
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council	Ranked 33rd 638,238 270 / km² Ranked 16th
Ethnicity:	95.1% White 2.0% S.Asian 1.2% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Northamptonshire County Council http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/
Executive:	Labour
Members of Parliament
Tim Boswell, Tony Clarke, Phil Hope, Sally Keeble, Phil Sawford, Paul Stinchcombe
Districts
South Northamptonshire Northampton Daventry Wellingborough Kettering Corby East Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants) is a county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). It has borders with Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire (inc. Peterborough), Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (inc. Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire and England's shortest county boundary (19 metres) with Lincolnshire. The name can be abbreviated to "Northants", and the county town is Northampton.

The Soke of Peterborough was historically associated with Northamptonshire.

Towns and villages

• Brackley, Braunston, Burton Latimer
• Corby
• Daventry, Desborough
• Fotheringhay
• Kettering
• Lowick
• Marston St. Lawrence, Middleton, Moulton
• Naseby, Northampton
• Oundle
• Rothwell, Rushden
• Silverstone
• Thrapston, Towcester
• Wellingborough

Places of interest

• 78 Derngate
• Althorp
• Boughton House, home of the Dukes of Buccleuch
• Burghley House
• Canons Ashby House - National Trust
• Castle Ashby, home of the Marquess of Northampton
• Cottesbrooke Hall
• Deene Park
• Delapre Abbey
• Elton Hall
• Holdenby House
• Kelmarsh Hall
• Kirby Hall - English Heritage
• Lamport Hall
• Naseby Field
• Northampton & Lamport Railway;
• Rockingham Castle
• Rockingham Motor Speedway
• Rushton Triangular Lodge - English Heritage
• Silverstone Circuit
• Stanford Hall
• Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
• Sulgrave Manor
• Wicksteed Park

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