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Modern housing.
Halefield Lodge.
Modern housing.
Double-naved church, possibly 13th century monastic origin.
Queen Eleanor's funeral cortège halted here; an Eleanor cross stands in the grounds of Delapré Abbey.
14th century manor house.
Mill. Scattered; in parkland; Roman villa.
Suburb of Northampton; Roman remains nearby.
Manorial earthworks, possibly Elizabethan, nearby.
Expanding; on the edge of ancient Salcey Forest.
Wind-blown.
Fine local stone.
Jacobean manor house.
Market town; earthworks of William Peverel's castle.
Manor house.
Secluded.
Mill. Charles I was held prisoner in 1647 at Holdenby House.
Birthplace of Charles Montagu (1661-1715), 1st Earl of Halifax, the Restoration poet and politician.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Houghton.
On the edge of Easton Neston park; manor farm.
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Housing estates; a Roman town and Saxon graveyard were unearthed here.
Small industrial town; 14th century bridge.
Manor farm.
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Hall by James Wyatt.
Market town, a centre of the boot and show industry; Georgian manor house; remains of Roman industrial centre.
Lords of manor once had the power to execute felons at nearby Gallows bank.
Large; 14th century church spire; manor house; Mill House farm.
Absorbed by Northampton; green with ancient spring.
Part of Northampton; remains of medieval moat.
Ruins of hall begun in 1570 and added to by Inigo Jones.
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Lamport Hall, seat of the Ishams, manor residents since 1560.
Rebuilt in the late 18th century.
Roman earthworks nearby.
Parkland; Jacobean Hall.
Ironstone; manor house.
Larger than Great Harrowden, despite its name.
Weldon Lodge.
Jacobean hall.
Small town.
Drayton House, nearby, has a 13th century crypt.
Secluded.
Quiet; manor house.
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Remains of manor house moat; manor farm.
Site of manorial fishpond.
Manor house. Charles Chauncy, 17th century vicar, became President of Harvard University in the US.
After their Naseby defeat, many Royalists fled here and were massacred.
Church with Saxon carving; manor house.
Civil War battle was fought here in 1643.
2 standing stones, Little John and Robin Hood.
Scattered; manor house.
Pretty; scattered homsteads; manor farm.
Part of suburban Northampton, Moulton Park was once a Carthusian Monastery.
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Stone; in Rockingham Forest; 13th century prebendal house; 15th century manor house; church with Saxon nave.
Large; manor house; Roman building in Horestone Meadow.
Manor house; church; cottages.
17th century bridge.
Peaceful. Also called Newton-in-the-Willows; Elizabethan dovecote.
Manor farm.
On Roman road; Nobottle Wood; Nobottle House.
Boot and shoe manufacturing town. Norman churches; traces of castle; medieval market place, rebuilt after 17th century fire.
Nortoft Grange, part of Guilsborough Village.
Roman site at Whilton Lodge.
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Now 2 villages of Great and Little Oakley, facing each other across quarries.
Also known as Wold.
Queen Anne hall.
Manor farm.
Market town with a public school founded in 1556 by William Laxton, a grocer who became Lord Mayor of London.
Near the village of Great Oxenden and hamlet of Little Oxendon, the latter on the site of a medieval village.
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17th century manor house and rectory.
Partly Saxon church; Roman Watling Street. Simon de Pattishall supported the barons against King John.
Scattered.
City, a brickmaking centre, with a fine Norman cathedral begun in 1118.
Manor farm.
Pilsgate Grange.
Scattered; Long Barrow nearby.
Jacobean manor house.
Jacobean hall, early Norman church, probably built by the masons of Peterborough Cathedral.
Expanding; on Roman Watling Street.
Now Preston Capes; remains of 11th century castle. Nearby, hamlet of Little Preston.
Scattered.
Now 2 hamlets, Great and Little Purston.
Jacobean manor house. Lords of the Manor were obliged by ancient tradition to keep hounds here to destroy vermin. The famous pack of hounds was formally established in the mid-18th century.
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