Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Northamptonshire

County town: Northampton

Other major towns: Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough

Known as the Rose of the shires, the county is located in Central England in the East Midland region. As well as being famous for its shoemaking heritage, it is also home to Althorpe house, ancestral home of the Spencer family. The town of Corby, famed for its steel production, has a high percentage of inhabitants with Scottish ancestry and indeed holds a 'Highland Games' each year in honour of this. Also the home of Silverstone - the host for the British Grand prix. John Dryden was born in the county and lived at Titchmarsh. Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, was tried at Northampton Castle in 1164.

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Register Office Contact Details

County Registration Service
Northamptonshire County Council
PO Box 5594
Northampton
NN4 0WY

Tel: 01604 707907
email registrationservice@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Website links: Northamptonshire County Council

Corby Register Office
The Register Office
The Old Stables
Cottingham Road
Corby
NN17 1TD

Tel 01536 203141
email corbyro@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Daventry Register Office
Lodge Road
Daventry
NN11 4FP

Tel 01327 302209
E-mail daventryro@northampton.gov.uk

Kettering Register Office
The Register Office
10 London Road
Kettering
NN15 7QU

Tel: 01536 514792
email ketteringro@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Northampton Register Office
The Guildhall
Northampton
NN1 1DE

Tel 01604 745396
e-mail northamptonro@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Oundle/Thrapston Register Office
The Old Courthouse
Mill Road
Oundle
Peterborough
PE8 4BW

Tel 01832 273413
email oundlero@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Towcester/Brackley Register Office
Sunny Banks
55 Brackley Road
Towcester
NN12 6DH

Tel 01327 350774
email towcesterro@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Wellingborough Register Office
Council Offices
Swanspool House
Wellingborough
NN8 1BP

Tel 01933 231548/9
email wellingboroughro@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Northamptonshire R/O JoJo

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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• Geddington and surrounding villages JoJo
• Gt/Little Billing Jessbowbag
• Great Houghton/Little Houghton Jessbowbag
• Hardingstone Jessbowbag
• Roade Jessbowbag
• Villages on town boundary Jessbowbag
• Wootton Jessbowbag

Photo Offers

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Links

Primary Reference Links

• County Record Office

• Library Links

• The CAMUS Project (Cambs & Northants)

• Alan Clarke's Northamptonshire Pages

• Local History Society Gateway Page

• Northamptonshire Family History Society

• Northampton Lookup-Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Baptist Ministers in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire 1753-1835

• Black History in Northamptonshire

• Boot And Shoe Collection

• East Midlands Heritage

• Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer

• Northamptonshire & Soke of Peterborough Churches

• Northamptonshire Genealogy Links

• Northamptonshire.Net

• Northamptonshire Nonconformists

• Northamptonshire Old Families Inc. some Parish Records

• Northamptonshire Parish Data

• Northamptonshire Parishes, Villages and Hamlets

• Phipps Brewery

• Northamptonshire Wills

• Northamptonshire Workhouses

• Northants Family History Inc. 1841 census

• The Future of Northamptonshire History

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Families of The Ashton

• Brackley Poor Law

• Brixworth History Society

• Families of Blisworth

• Blisworth Images and History

• Bozeat Village Website

• Burton Latimer - A Sense of Place

• Records - Cold Ashby

• Scroll down to see some Parish Records for Cold Higham and Pattishall

• A History of the Village of Cottingham

• Duston and Upton Community - Local History

• A Personal Tour of Earls Barton

• Earls Barton

• Glapthorn Census 1841-1891 Index

• Grafton Regis A Place in the Country, A Place in the Country's History

• Gretton History

• Welcome to Helmdon

• Long Buckby- A very Brief Village History

• Naseby Baptisms 1813-1864

• Northampton

• Northampton History

• Northampton Timeline

• Oundle Links

• Pitsford All Saints Church

• Potterspury Village Website

• Preston Capes Parish Site

• Families of the Parish of Roade

• Rushden Family History Society

• Rushden Research " Hearts & Soles"

• Rushden Historic Transport Society

• Families of the Parish of Stoke Bruerne

• Thorpe Mandeville Village History

• Welcome to Titchmarsh

• Families of Towcester

• Walgrave Baptisms 1710-1878

• Warmington Village History Pages

• The Borough Council of Wellingborough

• The Parish of Wollaston with Strixton

• Some of the Families of Yardley Hastings

Maps and Photographs

• Maps & Photographs of Northampton + other bits & pieces

• Photographs of the East Midlands

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