{"id":1577,"date":"2011-03-20T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2011-03-20T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:02:12","slug":"towcester-rushden-and-corby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/towcester-rushden-and-corby\/","title":{"rendered":"Towcester Rushden and Corby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towcester Rushden and Corby &#8211;\u00a0Three widely differing towns located in the county of Northamptonshire, Towcester, Rushden and Corby are 3 of the larger towns in the county. <a title=\"Towcester Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/towcester-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Towcester <\/a>famous for its racecourse actually dates from Roman times, when it was a significant settlement, it is a charming place with a 12 century church. <a title=\"Rushden Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/rushden-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rushden <\/a>is a growing town, the 5<sup>th<\/sup> largest in the county, with over one fifth of its 10,000 population arriving in the last 10 years, it grew around a variety of industries including lacemaking. <a title=\"Corby Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/corby-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Corby <\/a>is an almost entirely industrial town, peppered with industrial estates, it grew around first the iron ore industry then later steelmaking, which produced a boom for the town during the twentieth century. These three towns surround the county town of Northampton, Towcester to the south-west, Rushden to the east and Corby to the north-east.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northamptonshire Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/northamptonshire-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Northamptonshire Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towcester Rushden and Corby &#8211;\u00a0Three widely differing towns located in the county of Northamptonshire, Towcester, Rushden and Corby are 3 of the larger towns in the county. Towcester famous for its racecourse actually dates from Roman times, when it was a significant settlement, it is a charming place with a 12 century church. Rushden is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[808,803,804,809,819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}