Northamptonshire (or, archaically, the County of Northampton; pronounced /nɔrˈθæmptənʃər/ or /nɔrθˈhæmptənʃɪər/; abbreviated Northants. or N/hants) is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with Warwickshire to the West, Leicestershire to the North, Rutland also to the North, Cambridgeshire (including the city of Peterborough) to the East, Bedfordshire to the South E...
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Northamptonshire (or, archaically, the County of Northampton; pronounced /nɔrˈθæmptənʃər/ or /nɔrθˈhæmptənʃɪər/; abbreviated Northants. or N/hants) is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with Warwickshire to the West, Leicestershire to the North, Rutland also to the North, Cambridgeshire (including the city of Peterborough) to the East, Bedfordshire to the South East, Buckinghamshire (including the borough of Milton Keynes) to the South, Oxfordshire to the South West, and Lincolnshire (England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (21 yd)) to the North East. The county town is Northampton.
Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip.
Northamptonshire is an upland county in the East Midlands region. It contains the watershed between the Severn and The Wash. Several important rivers have their sources in the north west of the county, including the River Nene, which flows north-eastwards to The Wash...
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