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Much of Northamptonshire's countryside appears to have remained somewhat intractable with regards to early human occupation, resulting in an apparently sparse population and relatively few finds from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. About 500 BC the Iron Age was introduced into the area by a continental people in the form of the Hallstatt culture.
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CASTLE ASHBY
Castle Ashby is the name of a civil parish, an estate village and the country house in rural Northamptonshire, England. Historically the village was set up to service the needs of Castle Ashby itself, the seat of the Marquess of Northampton. The village has one small pub-cum-hotel, The Falcon ...
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DELAPRE ABBEY
Delapré Abbey (The Abbey of the meadow), or more properly, the Convent of St Mary De La Pré, was founded about the year 1145 in the meadows of the River Nene to the south of Northampton as a Cluniac nunnery. The convent was founded by Simon of St Liz in the reign of King Stephen and held a Royal Charter from Edward III ...
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KIRBY HALL
Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan country house, located near Gretton in Northamptonshire. Construction on the building began in 1570 based on the designs in French architectural pattern books and expanded in the classical style over the course of the decades. The house is now in a semi-ruined state with many parts roof-less ...
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NORTHAMPTON CATHEDRAL
Northampton Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Northampton, England. It is the seat of the Diocese of Northampton which covers the counties of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and that part of Berkshire (formerly in Buckinghamshire) that lies to the north of the River Thames ...
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ROCKINGHAM CASTLE
Rockingham Castle is a former a royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest a mile to the north of Corby, Northamptonshire, English. The site on which Rockingham Castle stand has been in use during the Iron Age, Roman period and by Saxon tribes ...
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SILVERSTONE CIRCUIT
The Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England, named after the village in the former. It is best known as the home of the British Grand Prix, which it first hosted in 1948 and which has been held on the circuit every year since 1987 ...
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