Places to Visit
 NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or N'hants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). It has borders with Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (including the Borough of Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire, and Lincolnshire (England's shortest county boundary: 19 metres). The county town is Northampton.
Northamptonshire has often been called the county of "squires and spires" due to its wide variety of historic buildings and country houses. The county has also been described as "England's Pancreas", most notably by the popular presenter Alan Titchmarsh in has 2007 series The Nature of Britain. This is due to its shape and location within the UK, and because it is regularly overlooked, especially compared to neighbouring Warwickshire, known as "The Heart of England".
Northamptonshire's county flower is the Cowslip.
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78 Derngate NorthamptonNorthamptonshireA house re-designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for modelmanufacturer W.J. Bassett- Lowke. Carefully restored to its 1917 appearance in 2003, it is among Mackintosh’s last architectural works, and is the only Mackintosh house open in England.
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Canons Ashby House DaventryNorthamptonshireTranquil Elizabethan manor house set in beautiful gardens
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Chichele College NorthamptonshireThe gatehouse, chapel and other remains of a communal residence for priests serving the parish church, founded by locally-born Archbishop Chichele before 1425. Regularly used to display works of art.
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Eleanor Cross, Geddington KetteringNorthamptonshireIn 1290 Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I and mother of his 14 children, died at Harby in Nottinghamshire. The places where her body rested on the journey south to its tomb in Westminster Abbey were marked by stone crosses.
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Kirby Hall CorbyNorthamptonshireKirby Hall is one of England’s greatest Elizabethan and 17th-century houses.
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Lyveden New Bield PeterboroughNorthamptonshireIntriguing Elizabethan lodge and moated garden
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Rushton Triangular Lodge KetteringNorthamptonshireThis delightful triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597.
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