Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire, or Northants, is a landlocked county in England. At the 2011 census, the county had an estimated population of 693,900.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Northampton and Corby.
Northampton
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Northampton is the county town of Northamptonshire, and is one of the largest settlements in the UK that is not a city after Reading and Dudley. It is about halfway between the cities of Birmingham and London.
Corby
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Corby is a town and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, 23 miles northeast of Northampton. In 2021 it had a population of 68,164. From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Corby; at the 2021 Census, the former borough had a population of 75,571.
Silverstone
Silverstone is a medium sized village in Northamptonshire, England. It lies about half way between Northampton and Oxford. Population about 2,000.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kettering and Wellingborough.
Kettering
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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.
Wellingborough
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Wellingborough is a market town and borough in Northamptonshire, England, situated some 11 miles from the county town of Northampton. The town is situated on the north side of the River Nene, most of the older town is sited on the flanks of the hills above the river's current flood plain.
Daventry
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Daventry is a market town and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, close to Northamptonshire's border with Warwickshire. At the 2021 Census, Daventry had a population of 28,123, making it the sixth-largest town in Northamptonshire.
Towcester
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Towcester is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative centre of the South Northamptonshire district.
Oundle
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Oundle is a market town and civil parish on the left bank of the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 6,254 at the time of the 2021 census.
Brackley
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Brackley is a market town close to the Northamptonshire border with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Since 1990, it has grown considerably with new housing estates, but retains the original town centre and market feel.
Rushden
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Rushden is a town in Northamptonshire. It forms a single urban area with the neighbouring town of Higham Ferrers. Neighbouring villages include Irchester, Wymington, Podington and Stanwick.
Northamptonshire
- Type: County with 730,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in England, UK
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Northamptonshire”
- Neighbors: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire
- Categories: ceremonial county of England, non-metropolitan county, and locality
- Location: East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
52.25° or 52° 15′ northLongitude of center
-0.8333° or 0° 50′ westPopulation
730,000Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323692OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Northamptonshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Northamptonshire”
- Arabic: “نورثامبتونشير”
- Armenian: “Նորթհեմփթոնշիր”
- Asturian: “Northamptonshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Northemptonşir qraflığı”
- Balinese: “Northamptonshire”
- Basque: “Northamptonshire”
- Bavarian: “Northamptonshire”
- Belarusian: “Нартгемптаншыр”
- Belarusian: “Нортгэмптаншыр”
- Bengali: “নর্থাম্পটনশায়ার”
- Breton: “Northamptonshire”
- Bulgarian: “Нортхамптъншър”
- Catalan: “Northamptonshire”
- Cebuano: “Northamptonshire”
- Chinese: “Northamptonshire”
- Chinese: “北安普敦郡”
- Chinese: “奥尔德温克尔”
- Chinese: “諾咸頓郡”
- Cornish: “Northamptonshire”
- Croatian: “Northamptonshire (grofovija)”
- Croatian: “Northamptonshire”
- Czech: “Northamptonshire”
- Danish: “Northamptonshire”
- Dutch: “Northamptonshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نورثهامبتونشير”
- Esperanto: “Northamptonshire”
- Estonian: “Northamptonshire”
- Finnish: “Northamptonshire”
- French: “Northamptonshire”
- Galician: “Northamptonshire”
- Georgian: “ნორტჰემპტონშირი”
- German: “Northamptonshire”
- Greek: “Νορθάμπτονσιρ”
- Gujarati: “ઉત્તરહેમ્પ્ટશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Northamptonshire”
- Hebrew: “נורת’האמפטונשייר”
- Hindi: “नॉर्थहैम्पटनशायर”
- Hungarian: “Northamptonshire”
- Icelandic: “Northamptonshire”
- Indonesian: “Northamptonshire”
- Interlingua: “Northamptonshire”
- Irish: “Northamptonshire”
- Italian: “Northamptonshire”
- Japanese: “ノーサンプトンシャー”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಥಾಂಪ್ಟನ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “노샘프턴셔주”
- Kurdish: “Northamptonshire”
- Ladin: “Northamptonshire”
- Latin: “Northamptoniensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Northemptonšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Nortamptonšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Northamptonshire”
- Macedonian: “Нортхемптоншир”
- Malay: “Northamptonshire”
- Malayalam: “നോർത്താംപ്റ്റൺഷയർ”
- Manx: “Northamptonshire”
- Marathi: “नॉरदॅम्प्टनशायर”
- Marathi: “नॉर्थअँप्टनशायर”
- Marathi: “नॉर्थहँप्टनशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Northamptonshire”
- Narom: “Schire de Norhamtoune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northamptonshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Northamptonshire”
- Norwegian: “Northamptonshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Northamptonshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþhāmtūnescīr”
- Ossetian: “Нортгемптоншир”
- Persian: “نورثهمپتونشایر”
- Persian: “نورثهمپتونشر”
- Polish: “Northamptonshire”
- Portuguese: “Northamptonshire”
- Romanian: “Northamptonshire”
- Russian: “Нортгемптоншир”
- Scots: “Northamptonshire”
- Serbian: “Нортхемптоншир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Northamptonshire”
- Sicilian: “Northamptonshire”
- Slovak: “Northamptonshire”
- Slovenian: “Northamptonshire”
- Spanish: “Northamptonshire”
- Swedish: “Northamptonshire”
- Tajik: “Нортгемптоншир”
- Tamil: “நோர்தம்ப்டன்ஷிர்”
- Telugu: “నార్తాంప్టన్షైర్”
- Thai: “นอร์แทมป์ตันเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Northamptonshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Northamptonshire Kontluğu”
- Uighur: “Shimaliy Amptonshir”
- Ukrainian: “Нортгемптоншир”
- Urdu: “نارتھیمپٹن شائر”
- Urdu: “نارتھیمپٹنشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Northampton”
- Vietnamese: “Northamptonshire”
- Volapük: “Northamptonshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Northamptonshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Northampton”
- Western Frisian: “Northamptonshire”
- Western Panjabi: “نارتھیمپٹنشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “北安普顿郡”
- Yiddish: “נארטהאמפטאנשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “諾咸頓郡”
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