Summer seemed to arrive with the 1st of April. After a quick look at Kettering we headed to Thrapston to do a walk around the canal and lake system there. We finished the walk at the Nine Arches Bridge over the River Nene. A seven arch bridge was built in medieval times and replaced in 1795 with a 24 arch bridge. This was reduced to the current structure in the 1840s after the arrival of the railways.
Higham Ferrers was the next stop: the main feature of this attractive town is a medieval chapel and gatehouse, which is all that remain of
Chichele College, a lay institution set up, around 1425, to pray for the souls of the founder and the King.
We had picked up a walking trail around the town of Kimbolton so we headed over to Kimbolton to check it out. The town is well worth a visit: highlights were the Castle, now a school, but- formally the residence off the Duke of Manchester; the other highlight was the Tiffany window in the local church, which the Duchess commissioned in 1900 from Tiffany of America, to commemorate the early deaths of her two daughters.
Summer seemed to arrive with the 1st of April. After a quick look at Kettering we headed to Thrapston to do a walk around the canal and lake system there. We finished the walk at the Nine Arches Bridge over the River Nene. A seven arch bridge was built in medieval times and replaced in 1795 with a 24 arch bridge. This was reduced to the current structure in the 1840s after the arrival of the railways.
Higham Ferrers was the next stop: the main feature of this attractive town is a medieval chapel and gatehouse, which is all that remain of Chichele College, a lay institution set up, around 1425, to pray for the souls of the founder and the King.
We had picked up a walking trail around the town of Kimbolton so we headed over to Kimbolton to check it out. The town is well worth a visit: highlights were the Castle, now a school, but- formally the residence off the Duke of Manchester; the other highlight was the Tiffany window in the local church, which the Duchess commissioned in 1900 from Tiffany of America, to commemorate the early deaths of her two daughters.
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I wonder if that's the same Thrapston we passed through the other night? We arrived after dark and left immediately, so I guess there's no way to find out.
Did 'your' Thrapston have a "peace park"? (I don't know why it was a peace park.)
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