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North Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire
Unitary authority area
	Kettering, the district's second largest town
	North Northamptonshire shown within Northamptonshire
	Coordinates: 52°24′00″N 0°43′41″W / 52.400°N 0.728°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	East Midlands
Ceremonial county	Northamptonshire
Incorporated	1 April 2021
Administrative HQ	Corby Cube
Government
• Type	Unitary authority with leader and cabinet
• Body	North Northamptonshire Council
• House of Commons	3 MPs Lee Barron (L) ; Rosie Wrighting (L) ; Gen Kitchen (L) ;
Area
• Total	381 sq mi (987 km2)
• Rank	25th
Population (2022)
• Total	363,408
• Rank	23rd
• Density	950/sq mi (368/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 47.9% Christianity ; 42.6% no religion ; 1.3% Hinduism ; 1.2% Islam ; 0.5% Sikhism ; 0.3% Buddhism ; 0.1% Judaism ; 0.5% other ; 5.6% not stated ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode area	NN
Dialling codes	01536; 01933;
ISO 3166 code	GB-NNH
GSS code	E06000061
ITL code	TLF25
GVA	2021 estimate
• Total	£7.4 billion
• Per capita	£20,612
GDP (nominal)	2021 estimate
• Total	£8.5 billion
• Per capita	£23,536

North Northamptonshire is one of two local government districts in Northamptonshire, England. Its council is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. It was created in 2021.^[6] The council is based in Corby, the district's largest town. Other notable towns are Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden, Raunds, Desborough, Rothwell, Irthlingborough, Thrapston and Oundle.

North Northamptonshire borders the City of Peterborough, Rutland, Milton Keynes, Huntingdonshire, Bedford, Harborough, West Northamptonshire and South Kesteven districts.

It has a string of lakes along the Nene Valley Conservation Park, associated heritage railway, the village of Fotheringhay which has tombs of the House of York as well as a towering church supported by flying buttresses. This division has a well-preserved medieval castle in private hands next to Corby – Rockingham Castle – and about 20 other notable country houses, many of which have visitor gardens or days.

History

North Northamptonshire was created on 1 April 2021 by the merger of the four non-metropolitan districts of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, and Wellingborough. The new council took on the functions of these districts, plus those of the abolished Northamptonshire County Council within the area. The way these changes was implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county covering the area, both called North Northamptonshire. There is no county council; instead the district council performs county-level functions, making it a unitary authority.^[7] North Northamptonshire remains part of the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty.^[8]

In March 2018, following financial and cultural mismanagement by the cabinet and officers at Northamptonshire County Council, the then Secretary of State for Local Government, Sajid Javid, sent commissioner Max Caller into the council, who recommended the county council and all district and borough councils in the county be abolished, and replaced by two unitary authorities, one covering the west, and one the north of the county.^[9] These proposals were approved in April 2019. It meant that the districts of Daventry, Northampton, and South Northamptonshire were merged to form a new unitary authority called West Northamptonshire, whilst the second unitary authority North Northamptonshire consists of the former Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, and Wellingborough districts.^[10]^[11]

The council logo depicts Rockingham Castle, the River Welland and a red kite. The red kite is a bird of prey that has become strongly associated with the county of Northamptonshire, and is particularly commonplace in the north-eastern parts of the county around Corby and Rockingham Forest.^[12]

Governance

North Northamptonshire Council provides both county-level and district-level services. The whole area is also covered by civil parishes, which form a second tier of local government.^[13]

Settlements and parishes

The parish councils for Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, Finedon, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Kettering, Oundle, Raunds, Rothwell, Rushden, Thrapston and Wellingborough have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take the style "town council".^[14]

Rushden, the fourth-largest settlement in North Northamptonshire

Achurch, Aldwincle, Apethorpe, Ashley, Ashton
Barnwell, Barton Seagrave, Benefield, Blatherwycke, Bozeat, Brampton Ash, Braybrooke, Brigstock, Broughton, Bulwick, Burton Latimer
Chelveston cum Caldecott, Clopton, Corby, Collyweston, Cotterstock, Cottingham, Cranford, Cransley
Deene, Deenethorpe, Denford, Desborough, Dingley, Duddington-with-Fineshade
Earls Barton, East Carlton, Easton Maudit, Easton on the Hill, Ecton
Finedon, Fotheringhay
Geddington, Glapthorn, Grafton Underwood, Great Addington, Great Doddington, Great Harrowden, Grendon, Gretton
Hardwick, Hargrave, Harrington, Harringworth, Hemington, Higham Ferrers
Irchester, Irthlingborough, Islip, Isham
Kettering, King's Cliffe
Laxton, Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, Little Addington, Little Harrowden, Little Irchester, Loddington, Lowick, Luddington, Lutton
Mawsley, Mears Ashby, Middleton
Nassington, Newton and Little Oakley, Newton Bromswold
Orlingbury, Orton, Oundle
Pilton, Polebrook, Pytchley
Raunds, Ringstead, Rockingham, Rothwell, Rushden, Rushton
Shotley, Southwick, Stanion, Stanwick, Stoke Doyle, Stoke Albany, Strixton, Sudborough, Sutton Bassett, Sywell
Tansor, Thorpe Malsor, Thorpe Waterville, Thrapston, Thurning, Titchmarsh, Twywell
Wadenhoe, Wakerley, Warkton, Warmington, Weekley, Weldon, Wellingborough, Weston by Welland, Wilbarston, Wilby, Wollaston, Northamptonshire,Woodford, Woodnewton, Wollaston
Yarwell

Media

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC East and ITV Anglia which broadcast from the Sandy Heath transmitter.^[15] The Waltham transmitter can also be received which broadcasts BBC East Midlands and ITV Central programmes.^[16]