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Woodford Halse sits in a quiet corner of the Northamptonshire countryside, about eight miles south of Daventry. It feels quite different from the traditional stone villages nearby, largely because its identity was transformed by the arrival of the Great Central Railway in the late 19th century. Once a major railway junction with a massive locomotive shed, the village expanded rapidly to house workers, giving it a unique layout and a sense of scale you don't always find in rural settlements. While the trains stopped running in the 1960s, the village kept its practical character; it functions as a self-contained hub for the surrounding hamlets, with a primary school, a surprising range of local shops, and a large pocket park built on the old railway land. Geographically, it’s surrounded by rolling hills and is close to the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, making it a useful base for reaching Banbury or Rugby, though the village itself remains tucked away from the main trunk roads.