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BARNWELL

CASTLE ASHBY

FOTHERINGHAY

LILBOURNE

LITTLE HOUGHTON

LONGTHORPE TOWER

ROCKINGHAM

SULGRAVE

WADENHOE

The long straggling county of Northamptonshire marks the boundary between the Midlands and the "Home Counties".  For many years it was a centre for Iron and Steel works, although only Corby now makes any great amount. Towns and cities include Peterborough, Northampton, Corby, Wellingborough, Kettering, Brackley and Rushden.

Much of the county was once occupied by the Rockingham Forest, only a small amount of which now remains.

The far north-east extreme of the county is the Soke of Peterborough - for many centuries a county in its own right and today part of modern Cambridgeshire.  The River Nene enters the county from here and snakes down through most of the county via Northampton itself.

Rockingham Castle is by far the best in the county, although several others are interesting and Northamptonshire has a good selection of motte Castles.

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