Northampton is a landlocked county and sits between eight other counties. It has over square km of land square miles. Surrounding the county are: Rutland and Leicestershire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the south, Warwickshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east.
The county line between Lincolnshire and Northampton is recognized as the shortest county border, measuring at 19 metres 21 yards. Other notable large towns and centres include, Corby, Rushden, Daventry, Wellingborough, and Kettering. In , they then merged to form two entities, whose borders were then changed slightly in the changes of Things were stable again until when the creation of Unitary Authorities made things more complicated; the region around Peterborough broke off to become the Unitary Authority of Peterborough.
So in addition to the seven tripoints in the diagram above, even ignoring the changes, I could add the two current tripoints of Cambs-Peterborough-Lincs and Cambs-Northants-Peterborough, and the two 'traditional' ones, Cambs-Beds-Huntingdonshire and Cambs-Huntingdonshire-Northants. In any case, most of the tripoints haven't changed since boundaries were first fixed, so the seven on the map above are as good as you can pick, and so on a sunny Saturday we decided to see what was there, stopping at the Cambs-Beds-Huntingdonshire too as it was on the way.
Select the links above for more info on each. In the end we visited all the points over the course of a couple of Saturdays, so we could stop for a leisurely look around Stamford, but anyone keen could do all the points in a day.
Unlike the arbitrary, if intriguing, sport of visiting confluences , at least with tripoints there is pretty much always something physical there, as there had to be a reason the border was put there. Other people have taken things various stages further, such as this page of pictures of most of the European tripoints, and the astonishing Jack Parsell who has visited all of the tripoints of US states.
It is also known to be one of the smallest county in the UK ranked 4th and smallest historic county in England. The total population of Rutland is 17, recorded in Leicestershire — Located on the southeast belt of Northamptonshire, the name Leicestershire was derived from its extraordinary contribution to the one-third of greater Leicester.
Up till , Leicestershire, Rutland came under the geographical privileges of districts of Leicestershire, but this decision was revised in which resulted in the separation of these counties into separate ones. The population of Leicestershire is , in accordance with census. Lincolnshire — also known to have the shortest county boundary in England, measured at 62 ft.
Its total population is , Buckinghamshire , unlike other surrounding counties, carries a unique political history that leads straight political influence including English Civil War. The total population of this county is , Oxfordshire — noted mostly for its foundation of education and attractive tourism industries, Oxfordshire is the only county in England to have the largest printing and publication press Oxford University Press.
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