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Towcester

Towcester is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of , England. From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative centre of the South Northamptonshire district.
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  • Type: Town with 9,250 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England
  • Also known as: “Lactodurum” and “Towcester, Northamptonshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Towcester Town Hall and Bury Mount.

Town hall
Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building in Watling Street, Towcester, , England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Towcester Town Council, is a grade II listed building.

Castle
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Motte is the remains of an earthwork motte and bailey fortification or ancient castle in Towcester in , and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Church
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greens Norton and Caldecote.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England, just over 1 mile north-west of Towcester. At the 2011 census the parish, including Caswell and , had a population of 1,526, a slight decrease since the 2001 census.

Hamlet
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is a village in , England, about 1 mile north of Towcester.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the civil parish of in , England. The hamlet is 2 miles North west of Towcester. is not recorded in the Domesday Book, the name of the hamlet first appears in documentation from 1276 as Dunna's Cot.

Towcester

Latitude
52.1328° or 52° 7′ 58″ north
Longitude
-0.9895° or 0° 59′ 22″ west
Population
9,250
Elevation
308 feet (94 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TOW
Open location code
9C4X42M6+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 16664272
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2635597
Wiki­data ID
Q2569107
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Towcester” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Towcester”
  • Basque: “Towcester”
  • Bavarian: “Towcester”
  • Bengali: “টোচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Towcester”
  • Bulgarian: “Тоустър”
  • Catalan: “Towcester”
  • Cebuano: “Towcester”
  • Chinese: “托斯特”
  • Czech: “Towcester”
  • Danish: “Towcester”
  • Dutch: “Towcester”
  • French: “Towcester”
  • German: “Towcester”
  • Gujarati: “ટોસેસ્ટર”
  • Hebrew: “טוצ’סטר”
  • Irish: “Towcester”
  • Italian: “Towcester”
  • Japanese: “トースター”
  • Japanese: “トウスター”
  • Japanese: “トウセスター”
  • Kannada: “ಟೌಸ್ಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “토우세스터”
  • Ladin: “Towcester”
  • Lithuanian: “Tausteris”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Towcester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tofeceaster”
  • Persian: “تاوکستر”
  • Polish: “Towcester”
  • Portuguese: “Towcester”
  • Romanian: “Towcester”
  • Russian: “Таучестер”
  • Russian: “Тоустер”
  • Slovak: “Towcester”
  • Slovenian: “Towcester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاوکستر”
  • Spanish: “Towcester”
  • Swedish: “Towcester”
  • Tamil: “நியூபிரிட்ஜ்”
  • Telugu: “టౌసెస్టర్”
  • Turkish: “Towcester”
  • Urdu: “تووکیستیر”
  • Volapük: “Towcester”
  • Welsh: “Towcester”
  • “Towcester”

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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 “Towcester”. Photo: Boscastle, CC BY-SA 3.0.