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Sweet Northamptonshire village set amid delightful open countryside which centuries ago was sufficiently important to have it's own fair and market. Its other claim to fame is as the place where King Charles I stayed on the eve of the battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644.

The village shows a pleasant mixture of lovely properties, some with thickly thatched roofs and creeper climbing up to tiny dormer windows, fronted by neat lawns and pretty flower beds. It also has an extremely pretty churchyard that has been winner and runner up in the Northamptonshire 'Best Kept Churchyard' competition. Interestingly, the churchyard contains the grave of a negro slave who died at the age of 16 in 1762. The church dates 13th-century and has many historic relics from the past. On the village green is a war memorial to the dead of World War I and II.

Wandering the quiet lanes around the village it is hard to imagine that in the 18th-century it was the headquarters for a notorious band of thieves. Known as the Culworth Gang, this disreputable bunch terrorised locals and other villages until they were later rounded up by the law.

There is an attractive old school which was originally endowed by a local family late in the 18th-century. Here, not only are the children well educated but they also learn to experience the joy of dancing round the Maypole in celebration of May Day. This was something all children enjoyed for centuries but seems to have virtually vanished since the middle of the 20th-century.

The market of centuries ago is replaced with a friendly village stores, and for the thirsty there is an excellent village pub. Sulgrave Manor is close-by as is Cannons Abbey, owned by the National Trust.

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	The Bowling Green Steakhouse Hotel Overthorpe Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction SW) Recently extended to create a great restaurant private hotel on the outskirts of Banbury. Ajacent to m40 Junction 11. Privately owned and run by Phil and Karen Slater, offering a friendly personal ser... More info and book online.. Price from £57.00
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	Crown Hotel 20 Market Place, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England (6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction S) The country market town of Brackley is the delightful setting for this 13th Century coaching inn. When you stay with us, you will step back in time. The hotel is situated right in the heart of the c... More info and book online.. Price from £60.00
	Cromwell Lodge Hotel 9-11 North Bar Street, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction SW) A majestic 17th century building, with an elegant restaurant that offers an imaginative menu and good service. Food is also served on the terrace of the large enclosed garden. The Cromwell, having r... More info and book online.. Price from £29.00
	Mercure Whately Hall Banbury 17-19 Horse Fair, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (6.9 miles, 11.2 km, direction SW) The Mercure Whately Hall Hotel is several hundred years old, and is spacious and comfortably furnished. The Mercure Whately Hall Hotel, originally a 17th-century coaching inn, is close to Banbury Cros... More info and book online.. Price from £60.00

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M40 Junction 11	(5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction SW)
Banbury Station	(6.5 miles, 10.4 km, direction SW)
Kings Sutton Station	(7.3 miles, 11.8 km, direction SW)
M1 Junction 16	(11.3 miles, 18.1 km, direction NE)
Birmingham International Airport	(32.3 miles, 52.0 km, direction NW)
London Luton Airport	(39.3 miles, 63.3 km, direction SE)
Culworth to London	(62.6 miles, 100.7 km, direction SE)