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Northampton sits in a wide loops of the River Nene, right in the heart of the East Midlands with the M1 motorway running along its southern edge. Historically, it was the global capital of the shoe and boot industry, a legacy you can still see in the grand Victorian factories that pepper the town centre and the local football team’s nickname, the Cobblers. It underwent a massive expansion as a "New Town" in the 1960s, resulting in a grid-like layout of residential districts linked by a network of high-speed dual carriageways that keep the traffic moving fairly well. Today, it is defined by its scale; it is one of the largest market towns in the UK, centred on a historic square that has been a focal point for trade since 1235. Geographically, you are well-placed for both the capital and the north, with the fast trains to London Euston taking about an hour, while the surrounding Northamptonshire countryside offers a surprising amount of quiet, undulating woodland and rolling hills just a few miles from the town’s outer ring roads.