Features

Overview

Northamptonshire is a typical English landscape of rolling hills, stone built villages and a patchwork of fields and woods, crossed by rivers and canals. There are 2,000 miles of footpaths including seven long distance footpaths such as the Nene Way and Jurassic Way, with plenty of opportunity for cycling on 15 formalised cycle touring routes like the Brampton Valley Way or the Bluebell Line. In the north east of the county lies Rockingham Forest, designated as a royal hunting ground by William the Conqueror after the Norman Conquest in 1066, which contrasts with the landscape of Pitsford Water, a site of Special Scientific Interest and home to important birdlife.