Oundle town centre, Northamptonshire
This is a re-edited version of an older shot. Northamptonshire has numerous beautiful stone-built villages featuring the rich warm brown ironstone. It was this ironstone that formed the basis for the iron and steel industry that was once widespread in the county. But the last major steelworks (at Corby) closed some years ago though they still make steel tubes.
However, in the north-east part of the county there is a different stone that predominates - white oolitic limestone - and most of the buildings in Oundle are constructed from this local stone. Oundle is a beautiful little market town, many of whose buildings are owned by Oundle School, a leading independent school that was founded in 1556.
In the centre of the picture is the Town Hall, built in the Tudor style but dating from 1830. The ground floor of this Grade II-listed building, which is the main feature of the Market Place, was originally open and used as a market. However, it is now enclosed and there is a street market behind it which is there on a Thursday. Very good it is, too.
Oundle town centre, Northamptonshire
This is a re-edited version of an older shot. Northamptonshire has numerous beautiful stone-built villages featuring the rich warm brown ironstone. It was this ironstone that formed the basis for the iron and steel industry that was once widespread in the county. But the last major steelworks (at Corby) closed some years ago though they still make steel tubes.
However, in the north-east part of the county there is a different stone that predominates - white oolitic limestone - and most of the buildings in Oundle are constructed from this local stone. Oundle is a beautiful little market town, many of whose buildings are owned by Oundle School, a leading independent school that was founded in 1556.
In the centre of the picture is the Town Hall, built in the Tudor style but dating from 1830. The ground floor of this Grade II-listed building, which is the main feature of the Market Place, was originally open and used as a market. However, it is now enclosed and there is a street market behind it which is there on a Thursday. Very good it is, too.