in the county of Leicestershire
(5.7 miles, 9.2 km, direction NW)Easter Monday sees the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne engaged in a riotous 'bottle kicking' contest which is said to have pagan origins...
in the county of Rutland
(12.6 miles, 20.3 km, direction N)For centuries the countryside around Oakham has echoed to the sound of hunting horns, for the vales and rolling farmland surrounding this sedate market town, have been the stamping ground for the counties hunting fraternity...
in the county of Northamptonshire
(14.0 miles, 22.5 km, direction SW)Hidden amongst leafy lanes and glorious poppy fields of the undulating Northamptonshire countryside, lies the peaceful village of Guilsborough...
in the county of Northamptonshire
(14.3 miles, 22.9 km, direction E)The lantern tower of the Church of St. Mary and All Saints at Fotheringhay shines through the deepening shadows of the great trees that frame it, shadows matched in darkness by those less visible that haunt the village where the final tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots was enacted...
in the county of Northamptonshire
(16.5 miles, 26.5 km, direction W)Picturesque village straddling the banks of the River Avon...
All towns in Northamptonshire
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Looking around the romantic ruin of Kirby Hall it is easy to imagine the splendour of an age when romance was all, and great.....
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