Walks from Northampton

Beautiful walks ending at Northampton Station.

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Wellingborough to Northampton

Riverside paths along the Nene, meadows, quarry lakes, arable fields, villages, urban riverside, nature reserve and raised flood embankments.

Warnings: Prone to flooding.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Market Harborough to Northampton

Rolling hills of the south east Midlands. Brampton Valley Way: former railway opened 1859, closed 1981, converted to multipurpose path in 1993; one of the longest ex-trackbed paths in the UK; runs through former ironstone quarrying area.

Time: 7h30–15h30

Warnings: Two unlit tunnels (Oxendon Tunnel and Kelmarsh Tunnel).

Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).

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Wolverton to Northampton

Fields, meadows, riverside cycle paths, medieval hunting forest, parkland, university campus and riverside town approach.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

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