23rd June 2009 - by Amanda Wilson
Northamptonshire - Many Reasons To Make It Worth A
Visit
Historically linked with Northamptonshire, The Soke of
Peterborough used to be the county jurisdiction is mainly
intensified on the cathedral there. Although, it had owned a
county council and in 1965 under the Local Government Act 1972,
it was mingled with the small neighboring county of
Huntingdonshire and so the city of Peterborough was promoted to
become a district of Cambridgeshire. Northamptonshire runs a
fully comprehensive system with 4 independent schools and 30
state secondary schools. No selective schools exist here.
Northamptonshire can also boast about an expanded music and
performing arts service, which is provided in way fanning music
teaching to the schools of the county. It also provides a
variety of county level music groups and keeps 15 local
Saturday morning music and performing arts centers that are
situated in the county going.
It has only one University, the University of Northampton,
which is a medium sized University with student's attendance in
thousands and two campuses just a few miles or kms apart. It
offers hundreds of different courses that are required for any
person.
Right from the undergraduate level to postgraduate level and
doctoral qualifications are provided here. Subjects here are
sciences subjects, traditional arts and humanities, along with
modern subjects like advertising, entrepreneurship and product
designing.
The space that has occurred in the hills at Watford Gap meant
that several routes passed through Northamptonshire from
southeast to northwest. The Roman Road, Watling Street, which
now is a part of the A5, ran through here, as did many major
roads, railways and canals.
The M1 motorway and the A14 join Northamptonshire with notable
transport links, from both north to south and east to west. The
A43 connects the M1 with the M40; it runs from the south of the
county to the Junction west of Brackley. The previous steel
town of Corby has become a home to vast regions of warehousing
and distribution companies.
At Braunston two main canals, the Oxford and the Grand Union
join the county. Eminent features of these rivers include the
canal museum at Stoke Bruerne, a flight of 17 locks on the
Grand Union located at Rothersthorpe and a tunnel at Blisworth,
which is situated at 2813 m or 3076 yards and is the third
longest navigable canal tunnel in the UK.
Branch of Grand Union Canal links to the River Nene in
Northampton and has been modernized and made a wide canal at
places and is called the Nene Navigation. It is more popular
for its guillotine locks.
The West Coast Main Line and the Midland Main Line are the two
railway tracks that pass over the county. When Northamptonshire
was thriving, it had 75 railway stations. Now they are reduced
to five. These are at Kettering and Wellingborough that are on
the Midland Main Line, Northampton and Long Buckby that are on
the WCML, along with Kings Sutton, which is situated just a few
yards from the border of Oxfordshire that is on the Chiltern
Main Line.
Source: http://uksmartguide.com
[SOCIALNETWORKLINK0000000715]
| 
