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Northamptonshire

It is a county in the East Midlands of England. The population was 723,000 in 2015. There are two separate governments in charge of the county: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. "The Rose of the Shires" is a common name for it.

Northamptonshire, which has an area of 2,364 square kilometers (913 square miles), is surrounded on all sides by other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the north-east, with England's shortest administrative county boundary at 20 yards (19 metres).

The county of Northampton sits at the very bottom of the East Midlands.

Northampton itself is a large city, but there are also many others in the county, such as Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden, and Daventry. A cowslip is the official state flower of Northamptonshire. Even though the Soke of Peterborough is located inside the county's original borders, its territory has been a part of Cambridgeshire's ceremonial county since 1974.

Geography of Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region, which is sometimes sometimes referred to as the South Midlands. Several major rivers, including the River Nene, which runs north-eastwards to The Wash, and the "Warwickshire Avon," which flows south-west to the Severn, have their origins in the county's northwestern corner. The area was proud of the fact that "not a single brook, however little, runs into it from any other district" in 1830. Arbury Hill, at 225 meters, is the county's peak (738 ft). 

Northampton is the most populated and largest of numerous towns in the county. There were 691,952 people in the county as of the 2011 census, with 212,069 calling Northampton home. The following table lists all cities with more than 10,000 residents.

Culture of Northamptonshire

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's novel published in 1814, is primarily situated in Northamptonshire.

Main events in Martha Grimes' Richard Jury mystery novels take place in and around Melrose Plant's hometown of Northamptonshire.

The traditional Northamptonshire shoe business, Kinky Boots, was forced to diversify into the fetish footwear industry in order to survive. This true story served as the inspiration for the British-American film and stage musical adaption of the same name, released in 2005.

Bauhaus, Temples, The Departure, New Cassettes, Raging Speedhorn, and Defenestration are just a few of the rock and pop groups to call this region home. The English musician Richard Coles formed the band The Communards with Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s. They had three Top Ten hits, including 1986's "Don't Leave Me This Way," which went to the top of the charts. He received an honorary doctorate from Northampton University in 2012. He has accepted the position of vicar in the Northamptonshire village of Finedon.

Both composer Malcolm Arnold (born October 21, 1921) and actor Marc Warren were born in Northampton (born March 20, 1967).