Name
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Image
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Town/City
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Type
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Summary
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78 Derngate
|
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Northampton
|
Historic house
|
Renovated house with interiors by architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
, contemporary craft gallery
|
Abington Park Museum
|
|
Northampton
|
Multiple
|
Local history, costumes, leather,
Northamptonshire Regiment
|
Althorp
|
|
Althorp
|
Historic house
|
Country estate with gardens and grounds, owned by
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
, girlhood home of
Diana, Princess of Wales
|
Boughton House
|
|
Kettering
|
Historic house
|
Estate home of the
Duke of Buccleuch
, with fine art, gardens
|
Burton Latimer Heritage Museum
|
|
Burton Latimer
|
Local
|
website
, operated by the Burton Latimer Heritage Society
|
The Canal Museum
|
|
Stoke Bruerne
|
Canal
|
History of canals in Britain
|
Canons Ashby House
|
|
Canons Ashby
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the
National Trust
, Elizabethan manor house
|
Carpetbagger Aviation Museum
|
|
Harrington
|
Aviation
|
History of
RAF Harrington
and the 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)
|
Corby Heritage Centre
|
|
Corby
|
Local
|
website
|
Cottesbrooke Hall
|
|
Creaton
|
Historic house
|
18th century Queen Anne-style house, gardens and park
|
Daventry Museum
|
|
Daventry
|
Local
|
website
|
Deene Park
|
|
Corby
|
Historic house
|
Medieval manor house with rooms from many periods, gardens
|
Desborough Heritage Centre
|
|
Desborough
|
Local
|
website
|
East Carlton Park Steel Heritage Centre
|
|
East Carlton
|
Local history
|
Features displays about local history and the development of the iron and steel industry in the town
|
Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
|
|
Irchester
|
Railway
|
Steam and diesel locomotives, lifesize diorama of a quarry, industrial and railroad artifacts
|
Jeyes of Earls Barton Museums
|
|
Earls Barton
|
Multiple
|
website
, gift, teddy bear and doll house shop with coffee shop and several museums: Earls Barton Museum of Village Life, Jeyes Heritage & Pharmacy Museum, and a model funfair
|
Kelmarsh Hall
|
|
Kelmarsh
|
Historic house
|
18th-century manor house and gardens
|
Kettering Museum and Art Gallery
|
|
Kettering
|
Multiple
|
website
, includes the Manor House Museum with exhibits of local history and culture, and the Alfred East Art Gallery for local art
|
Kirby Hall
|
|
Northampton
|
Historic house
|
Operated by
English Heritage
, Elizabethan country house in a semi-ruined state with gardens
|
Lamport Hall
|
|
Lamport
|
Historic house
|
Tudor home and gardens; also includes Hannington Vintage Tractor Club and Museum with farm equipment
|
Long Buckby Museum
|
|
Long Buckby
|
Local
|
website
|
Museum of Leathercraft
|
|
Northampton
|
Fashion
|
website
, located in the
Grosvenor shopping center
, development of leathercraft
|
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
|
|
Northampton
|
Multiple
|
Shoe collection, art, decorative arts, local history
|
Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
|
|
Hunsbury Hill
|
Railway
|
Heritage railway and museum
|
Oundle Museum
|
|
Oundle
|
Local history
|
website
|
Piddington Villa Museum
|
|
Piddington
|
Archaeology
|
Artifacts and remains of a large Roman villa
|
Prebendal Manor House
|
|
Nassington
|
Historic house
|
website
|
Rockingham Castle
|
|
Corby
|
Historic house
|
Former royal castle and hunting lodge with gardens, grounds
|
Rothwell Arts and Heritage Centre
|
|
Rothwell
|
Multiple
|
website
, local history, art
|
Rushden Museum
|
|
Rushden
|
Local
|
website
, local history especially the shoe industry
|
Rushden Transport Museum
|
|
Rushden
|
Railway
|
Railway memorabilia, rolling stock, road transport vehicles
|
Southwick Hall
|
|
Southwick
|
Historic house
|
website
, medieval manor house, gardens, grounds
|
Sulgrave Manor
|
|
Sulgrave
|
Historic house
|
Ancestral home of the family of
George Washington
, reflects Tudor through Georgian eras
|
Sywell Aviation Museum
|
|
Sywell
|
Aviation
|
Former World War II aerodrome with artifacts, recovered airplane wreckage, local aviation history
|
Wellingborough Museum
|
|
Wellingborough
|
Local
|
website
, local history, culture
|
Wollaston Museum
|
|
Wollaston
|
Local
|
information
, local history, culture, industry
|