Orton
Orton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles west of Kettering, in North Northamptonshire, England. The villages name means 'Higher farm/settlement' or 'ridge farm/settlement'.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 88 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Orton, Northamptonshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rothwell Gullet and Church of Holy Trinity.
Rothwell Gullet
Nature reserve
Photo: FinedonRes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rothwell Gullet is a 1.6-hectare nature reserve near Rothwell, Northamptonshire. It is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kettering and Rothwell.
Kettering
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kettering is a town of 60,749 people in north Northamptonshire. Kettering owes much of its heritage and growth to the arrival of the railway during the mid-1800s.
Rothwell
Town
Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rothwell is a market town and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. It is situated 4 miles northwest of Kettering, 7 miles southeast of Market Harborough, and 8 miles southwest of Corby.
Desborough
Town
Desborough is a town and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, lying in the Ise Valley between Market Harborough and Kettering. It was an industrial centre for weaving and shoe-making in the 19th century and had a long association with the Co-operative movement. Desborough is situated 2½ miles north of Orton.
Orton
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Kettering District, North Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.4054° or 52° 24′ 19″ northLongitude
-0.8186° or 0° 49′ 7″ westPopulation
88Elevation
456 feet (139 metres)Open location code
9C4XC54J+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 370982738OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
7295736Wikidata ID
Q2972768
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Orton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Orton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Northamptonshire)”
- Cebuano: “Orton”
- Dutch: “Orton”
- French: “Orton”
- Irish: “Orton”
- Italian: “Orton (Northamptonshire)”
- Italian: “Orton”
- Ladin: “Orton (Northamptonshire)”
- Ladin: “Orton”
- Polish: “Orton”
- Swedish: “Orton, Northamptonshire”
- Turkish: “Orton, Northamptonshire”
- Welsh: “Orton, Swydd Northampton”
- Welsh: “Orton”
- “Orton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Former parish church of All Saints and Loddington Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Orton”. Photo: Michael Patterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.