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Template:/box-header Northamptonshire (/nɔːrˈθæmptənʃər/ or /nɔːrθˈhæmptənʃɪər/), abbreviated Northants or N/hants, archaically County of Northampton, 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, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire (including the city of Peterborough), Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (including the borough of Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire, and Lincolnshire (England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (21 yd)). The county town is Northampton. Other towns include Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby and Daventry. Template:/box-footer

Left The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire, England. It is based at Pitsford and Brampton station, near the villages of Pitsford and Chapel Brampton, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Northampton.

The line between Northampton and Market Harborough finally closed on 16 August 1981, the intermediate stations on the route having been closed for many years.

In 1984 a group was formed with the intention of opening a section of the line as a heritage railway. The site opened to the public shortly afterwards. Following the granting of a Light Railway Order, the line carried its first fare-paying passengers in November 1995. The official Grand Opening Ceremony took place on 31 March 1996.

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Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough) is an English musician who is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock group Radiohead. As a singer, Yorke is recognisable by his distinctive tenor voice, vibrato, frequent use of falsetto and ability to reach, and sustain, notes over a wide vocal range. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.

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Template:/box-header Local BBC coverage:

• BBC Look East (Corby, Kettering, Northampton, Wellingborough)
• BBC East Midlands Today (Parts of the Corby Borough)
• BBC Oxford (South Northamptonshire)
• BBC Radio Northampton

Local ITV coverage:

• Anglia Television

Local Newspaper coverage:

• Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
• Northampton Chronicle & Echo

One of the few Canals in Northamptonshire is the Grand Union pictured above in Braunston.

• ... that Peterborough was until 1965 part of Northamptonshire?
• ... that Kettering is home to the 2nd oldest theme park in the country?
• ... that Wellingborough's oldest existing building is the All Hallows Church which dates from c1160?
• ... that Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip?

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