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About Culworth

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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Recommended attractions near Culworth

Sulgrave Manor	(1.6 miles, 2.6 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Canons Ashby House	(3.2 miles, 5.1 km, direction NE)	Pictures
Banbury Museum	(6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction SW)	Pictures
Farnborough Hall	(7.2 miles, 11.6 km, direction W)	Pictures
Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit	(8.7 miles, 14.0 km, direction E)	Pictures
Burton Dassett Hills Country Park	(9.3 miles, 15.0 km, direction W)	Pictures
Broughton Castle	(9.4 miles, 15.2 km, direction SW)	Pictures
Stowe Landscape Gardens	(10.0 miles, 16.1 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Daventry Country Park	(10.7 miles, 17.3 km, direction N)	Pictures
Upton House & Gardens	(10.8 miles, 17.4 km, direction W)	Pictures
Brook Cottage Gardens, Alkerton	(10.9 miles, 17.5 km, direction W)	Pictures
Swalcliffe Barn	(11.8 miles, 19.0 km, direction SW)	Pictures
The Old Gaol Museum	(12.4 miles, 19.9 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Buckingham Chantry Chapel	(12.6 miles, 20.2 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Althorp	(14.1 miles, 22.7 km, direction NE)	Pictures

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Recommended towns near Culworth

Sulgrave, in the county of Northamptonshire (1.4 miles, 2.3 km, direction SE)
USA President George Washington's ancestral home in England.
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Cropredy, in the county of Oxfordshire (4.8 miles, 7.7 km, direction W)
Famous for the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, which took place in 1644 when on the 29th of June King Charles I was victorious over Waller, leader of the Cromwellian troops.
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Banbury, a Historic Market Town in the county of Oxfordshire (6.9 miles, 11.1 km, direction SW)
This is one of the best known town's in England. It was made famous by its celebrated cross of 1859, built in honour of the...
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Farnborough, in the county of Warwickshire (7.1 miles, 11.4 km, direction W)
Traditionally known as the last outpost of the Cotswolds.
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Everdon, in the county of Northamptonshire (7.3 miles, 11.7 km, direction NE)
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Badby, in the county of Northamptonshire (7.4 miles, 12.0 km, direction N)
Badby is an attractive village spread around a hillside. It shows a confection of pretty cottages, some of which are thickly thatched with creeper climbing up to pretty dormer windows.
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Wroxton, in the county of Oxfordshire (8.7 miles, 14.1 km, direction W)
Quintessential pretty Oxfordshire village showing a wealth of attractive thatched cottages, built mostly following a fire which struck the village during the latter half of the 17th-century.
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Aynho, in the county of Northamptonshire (8.9 miles, 14.3 km, direction S)
There is a pale beauty about Aynho that is enhanced only by the pale golden fruit that flourishes in these parts and caused this lovely place to become known as 'The Apricot Village'.
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Burton Dassett, in the county of Warwickshire (9.7 miles, 15.6 km, direction W)
Delightful place in pleasant Warwickshire countryside.
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Edgehill, in the county of Warwickshire (10.8 miles, 17.4 km, direction W)
Historic Warwickshire spot where Charles I raised his standard in 1642.
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Buckingham, a Historic Market Town in the county of Buckinghamshire (12.4 miles, 19.9 km, direction SE)
Said to have been founded by 'Bucca' leader of the first Anglo Saxon settlers during the 7th century AD, and declared the county...
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Stoke Bruerne, in the county of Northamptonshire (12.4 miles, 20.0 km, direction E)
Lying just south of Northampton this beautiful canal village offers a wealth of interest to any boating enthusiast or any country lover.
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Combrook, in the county of Warwickshire (15.0 miles, 24.2 km, direction W)
A village to relish, set in leafy countryside bounded by quiet waterways.
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Compton Verney, in the county of Warwickshire (15.1 miles, 24.3 km, direction W)
The village of Compton Verney takes it name from the great house acquired in the 15th-century by the ruthless Verney family.
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Northampton, in the county of Northamptonshire (15.5 miles, 24.9 km, direction NE)
The landscape of Northampton is dotted with reminders of its illustrious history. Despite the great fire of 1675 when much of...
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Nearby travel help

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)

Hotels & Accommodation in Culworth

Hotel Name	Approximate distance from Culworth center
The Bowling Green Steakhouse Hotel	(5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction SW)
The Kings Head	(6.4 miles, 10.3 km, direction SE)
Crown Hotel	(6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction S)
Cromwell Lodge Hotel	(6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction SW)
Mercure Whately Hall Banbury	(6.9 miles, 11.2 km, direction SW)
Best Western Banbury House	(7.1 miles, 11.3 km, direction SW)
The Lismore Hotel	(7.1 miles, 11.4 km, direction SW)
Hellidon Lakes - A QHotel	(7.1 miles, 11.5 km, direction N)
Red Lion Hotel	(8.2 miles, 13.2 km, direction SW)
Best Western Wroxton House Hotel	(8.5 miles, 13.6 km, direction W)
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