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'''Sports Teams'''<br />
 
'''Sports Teams'''<br />
Northampton Town Football Club - "The Cobblers"<br />
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Northampton Town Football Club - "The Cobblers" (after Northampton's traditional manufacturing trade of shoemaking).<br />
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club - "The Steelbacks"<br />
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Northamptonshire County Cricket Club - "The Steelbacks" (after the nickname for the Northamptonshire Regiment)<br />
Northampton Rugby Union Football Club - "The Saints"<br />
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Northampton Rugby Union Football Club - "The Saints" (after the location of the club's ground in St James' End, Northampton, built upon the grounds of the mediaeval St James' Priory).<br />
    
'''Churches'''<br />
 
'''Churches'''<br />
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St Peters - a fine example of an Anglo-Saxon church, once situated outside the castle walls (now near the railway station).<br />
 
St Peters - a fine example of an Anglo-Saxon church, once situated outside the castle walls (now near the railway station).<br />
 
St Giles - another fine Anglo-Saxon church in the centre of the town.<br />
 
St Giles - another fine Anglo-Saxon church in the centre of the town.<br />
All Saints - built upon the remains of the Norman cathedral, a fine neo-classical market town church, built about 1677.
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All Hallows/All Saints - built upon the remains of the Norman cathedral, this is a fine neo-classical market town church, built about 1677.
 
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