Kearsley's Traveller's entertaining Guide through Great Britain (1801)
NORTHAMPTON is seated on an eminence, gently sloping to the river Nen. It has been the seat of several parliaments. It had once seven chruches within its walls, and two without. It was laid in ashes by the Danes in 1010 and again destroyed by a fire in 1675. Its regular spacious market-place is one of the finest in Europe. The streets are clean and well-paved, and the souses are build of a red-coloured stone. The church of the holy sepulchre is said to have been built by the knights templar on the model of that in Jerusalem. Its manufactures are shoes, stockings, and lace. The walls of the town were above tow miles in compass. It has a nunnery, several monasteries, and an ancient castle, the ruins of part of which are still to be seen.
Inns : George, Angel
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