Qualla: Northamptonshire https://qualla.com/northamptonshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Northamptonshire https://qualla.com/northamptonshire Northamptonshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/northamptonshire/ Northamptonshire is the county that put spires on its skyline and squires in its great houses, the county where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned and executed at Fotheringhay, where George Washington's great-grandfather emigrated to Virginia from a Tudor manor at Sulgrave, and where today the cars of Formula One are designed and built. Eight of the ten Formula One teams have a base in or just over its borders; the strip of countryside from Brackley to Silverstone to Brixworth is called Motorsport Valley for good reason. The Mercedes power units that win world championships are assembled in a village whose church was founded around 680 AD. Few English counties combine the very old and the very new with quite this much practicality.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/3/northamptonshire-wp/gcr3-northamptonshire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Northamptonshire: Rose of the shires https://qualla.com/northamptonshire/ The phrase 'rose of the shires' was already in use by the nineteenth century, and by 1830 it was a commonplace to describe the county as 'spires and squires.' Both are accurate. The county is studded with parish churches whose spires rise above the gentle hills: Earls Barton with...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/3/northamptonshire-wp/gcr3-northamptonshire-the-land-in-between.mp3 0:06 3 full Northamptonshire: Mary at Fotheringhay, Washington at Sulgrave https://qualla.com/northamptonshire/ The Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War both ran through Northamptonshire. King Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton in 1460. King Charles I, two centuries later, was imprisoned at Holdenby House in 1647. Mary, Queen of Scots was held at the now-ruined Fothe...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/3/northamptonshire-wp/gcr3-northamptonshire-mary-at-fotheringhay-washington-at-sulgrave.mp3 0:06 4 full Northamptonshire: From boot factories to Formula One https://qualla.com/northamptonshire/ The county's industrial story is the leather story. Boots and shoes were made everywhere from Wellingborough to Rushden to Northampton itself, with over two thousand makers in the nineteenth century. Today the count is closer to thirty, but the survivors are world-renowned: Churc...

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