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  • |name=Northamptonshire |map image=Northamptonshire Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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  • ...nd city (albeit that [[Manchester]] in [[Lancashire]] contests the title), and [[Coventry]] to the east is another major centre. ...t of a vast conurbation spreading over much of Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.
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  • ...stern edge of the county, near the borders with [[Northamptonshire]] and [[Leicestershire]]. The town had a population of 61,988 in the 2001 census. Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece ''Tom
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  • ...ms the borders of [[Leicestershire]], [[Warwickshire]], [[Worcestershire]] and finally [[Gloucestershire]]. ...conventionally divided since 1719 into the Lower Avon, below [[Evesham]], and the Upper Avon, from its source down to Evesham.
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  • ...and Union Canal at Braunston.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The canal at Braunston, Northamptonshire]] ...Union Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1397385.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Boats on the canal at Croxley Green]]
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  • |county=Leicestershire ...town is within Leicestershire, almost half of the town's modern area is in Northamptonshire, as the border slices though the middle.
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  • [[File:Oxford Canal from Napton.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Oxford Canal from Napton-on-the-Hill, Warwickshire]] ...ptonshire|Braunston]] and [[Napton-on-the-Hill]], and on to the [[Coventry Canal]] at Hawkesbury Junction in [[Bedworth]] just north of Coventry.
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  • {{county|Leicestershire}} ...ontinues through the Leicestershire Soar Valley, passing [[Loughborough]], and [[Kegworth]] until it reaches the Trent at the county boundary.
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  • |county=Leicestershire ...ghbouring hamlet of '''Hothorpe''', which lies across the county border in Northamptonshire.
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  • ...Avon]], which here forms the border between the counties. Despite its name and situation on the river, it is not known as ''Welford-on-Avon''; that title ...of two major motor routes - the [[M1 motorway]] and the [[M6 motorway]] - and is 1½ miles north of Junction 1 of the A14, which connects that junction w
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  • '''Elkington''' is a deserted mediæval village and parish in northern [[Northamptonshire]]. Any remaining population is included in the civil parish of [[Clay Coton ...lement is close to bridge 28 on the Leicester section of the [[Grand Union Canal]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Shell Book of Inland Waterways|author=Hugh McK
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  • |LG district=South Northamptonshire |constituency=South Northamptonshire
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  • ...ddlesex]], with a number of branches. The mainline was built between 1793 and 1805, to improve the route from the [[Midlands]] to London, by-passing the ...nd Union Canal|Grand Union Main Line]] from London to [[Birmingham]]. The canal is now much used by leisure traffic.
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  • {{county|Leicestershire}} ...Market Harborough]]. They are named after the nearby village of [[Foxton, Leicestershire|Foxton]].
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  • The '''Midshires Way''' is a long-distance footpath and bridleway that runs for 230 miles through the counties of the [[Midlands]], ...orthamptonshire]], [[Leicestershire]], [[Nottinghamshire]], [[Derbyshire]] and [[Cheshire]]
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