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Northamptonshire has a population of just over thousand, according to a census. Archaically, Northamptonshire is known as the County of Northampton and further abbreviated to Northants. 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.

Northamptonshire is the southernmost county in the East Midlands region. Apart from the county town of Northampton , other major population centres include Kettering , Corby , Wellingborough , Rushden and Daventry. Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip. Much of Northamptonshire's countryside appears to have remained somewhat intractable with regards to early human occupation, resulting in an apparently sparse population and relatively few finds from the Palaeolithic , Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.

In about BC the Iron Age was introduced into the area by a continental people in the form of the Hallstatt culture , and over the next century a series of hill-forts were constructed at Arbury Camp, Rainsborough camp, Borough Hill, Castle Dykes, Guilsborough , Irthlingborough , and most notably of all, Hunsbury Hill.

There are two more possible hill-forts at Arbury Hill Badby and Thenford. In the 1st century BC, most of what later became Northamptonshire became part of the territory of the Catuvellauni , a Belgic tribe, the Northamptonshire area forming their most northerly possession.

The Roman road of Watling Street passed through the county, and an important Roman settlement, Lactodorum , stood on the site of modern-day Towcester. A large fort was built at Longthorpe.

After the Romans left, the area eventually became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia , and Northampton functioned as an administrative centre. From about the area was conquered by the Danes as at one point almost all of England was, except for Athelney marsh in Somerset and became part of the Danelaw — with Watling Street serving as the boundary — until being recaptured by the English under the Wessex king Edward the Elder , son of Alfred the Great , in Northamptonshire was conquered again in , this time by the Vikings of York , who devastated the area, only for the county to be retaken by the English in Consequently, it is one of the few counties in England to have both Saxon and Danish town-names and settlements.

The county was first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , as Hamtunscire : the scire shire of Hamtun the homestead. The "North" was added to distinguish Northampton from the other important Hamtun further south: Southampton — though the origins of the two names are in fact different.

Rockingham Castle was built for William the Conqueror and was used as a Royal fortress until Elizabethan times. George Washington , the first President of the United States of America , was born into the Washington family who had migrated to America from Northamptonshire in Before Washington's ancestors moved to Sulgrave , they lived in Warton , Lancashire.

During the English Civil War , Northamptonshire strongly supported the Parliamentarian cause, and the Royalist forces suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Naseby in in the north of the county. King Charles I was imprisoned at Holdenby House in In Northamptonshire was said to "[enjoy] a very pure and wholesome air" because of its dryness and distance from the sea. Its livestock were celebrated: "Horned cattle, and other animals, are fed to extraordinary sizes: and many horses of the large black breed are reared.

Nine years later, the county was described as "a county enjoying the reputation of being one of the healthiest and pleasantest parts of England" although the towns were "of small importance" with the exceptions of Peterborough and Northampton. In summer, the county hosted "a great number of wealthy families