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Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is an historic county of England. (For more information about the ancient counties of the UK, see the historic counties page and the place types page.)
From The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72):
An inland county; bounded, on the NE by Leicestershire and Rutlandshire; on the N, by Lincolnshire; on the E, by Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire; on the SE, by Buckinghamshire; on the S and the SW, by Oxfordshire; on the W, by Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
The chief manufactures are shoes, boots, lace, silks, malt, malt-liquors, agricultural instruments, and paper.
The county town is Northampton; a city and parliamentary borough is Peterborough; a municipal borough is Daventry; another borough, but mostly in Lincolnshire, is Stamford; other towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants are Wellingborough, Kettering, Oundie, Towcester, and Brackley.
Also known as Northampton.
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