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- proper noun An
midland county ofEngland bordered byLeicestershire ,Rutland ,Lincolnshire ,Cambridgeshire ,Huntingdonshire ,Bedfordshire ,Buckinghamshire ,Oxfordshire andWarwickshire .
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- noun a county is central England
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Kelmarsh in Northamptonshire; and their pedigree, beginning in 1461, may be seen in Whalley's _Northamptonshire_: but this is necessarily very imperfect, on account of the author's want of access to documents which have subsequently been opened to the public.
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A teenager who beat a lorry driver to death with a hammer in Northamptonshire after a row over anti-social behaviour, will probably serve only 58 months in prison.
Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The Lloyds Ironworks had been built on the doorstep of what had been the tiny village of Corby in Northamptonshire, and in time the ironworks became Stewarts and Lloyds, who turned it into the biggest integrated iron and steelworks in Europe.
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“A teenager who beat a lorry driver to death with a hammer in Northamptonshire after a row over anti-social behaviour, has been sentenced to jail for 58 months.”
Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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** Wicken Park in Northamptonshire where she lived.
Letter 248 2009
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Aged six, he was evacuated to a boarding school in Northamptonshire where, he says, he was regularly beaten by a sadistic headmaster.
Oliver Sacks: The visionary who can't recognise faces Andrew Anthony 2010
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The village and church are over the border in Northamptonshire, and it is in this county near Clay Coton that the other two ironstone mileposts stand half hidden at the side of the lane at Stanford Mear.
Unexpected Alphabets No 2 Peter Ashley 2008
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The Little Owl was first introduced into the wild by the fourth Lord Lilford at his Lilford Hall estate near Oundle in Northamptonshire in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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What I wonder is whether the traffic situation at Donington will be any better than it is in Northamptonshire/Buckinghamshire.
Throw us a bone, Silverstone « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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Collyweston in Northamptonshire had been the principal seat of Elizabeth's grandmother, Margaret Beaufort and then had passed down to Henry Fitzroy, duke of Richmond and, briefly, to Anne Boleyn as part of her jointure. 74 It was very likely in disrepair by the time Elizabeth received it since there was no socially or politically significant person living in it since Richmond's death in 1536.
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