IF YOU’RE looking for of England’s best destinations for a country break, North Northamptonshire probably wouldn’t feature in your thinking when you could choose the Cotswolds, the Peak District or any of a list of many beautiful spots. But it should do.
For this area in the very heart of England has so much going for it, not least that it is relatively undiscovered. So, if you are looking for somewhere you might not have been before, look no further.
Stone-built in soft shades of Lincolnshire limestone, the village of King’s Cliffe is at its centre, where Northamptonshire meets Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland, with Leicestershire only a little further away.
The village itself would hold its own against any in the land judged on charm, heritage and Englishness.
Just off the A43, halfway between the former steel town of Corby and the ancient