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Northampton

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About Northampton

Northampton is a town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It is the county town of Northamptonshire and the administrative centre of the unitary authority of West Northamptonshire. The town is situated on the River Nene, 60 miles (97 km) north-west of London and 50 miles (80 km) south-east of Birmingham. Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; the population of its overall urban area was recorded as 249,093 in the 2021 census. The parish of Northampton alone had 137,387.

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It wasn't in the shop. It was in the depository in Northampton, and they would send it to any address. And it was, I don't know, £1,200 or something. It's a huge number of volumes of this massive dictionary.

from 244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 at 00:28:31 · read transcript

Other times Northampton came up

  1. It's like one of those which would win in a fight between a thousand bees and one bear. Yeah. It's like what happened in the Northampton branch of boots on February 2020. There was also in the first century, there was, and this was in Asia Minor, there was the idea of using, and we've spoken about mad honey before, but using mad honey. This is honey that has a poisonous element to it. which a lot of people, if mixed in lightly into a drink, can drink and have a high of it, but quite a big amount could actually cause you to have huge stomach problems, possibly even fatal to some people.

    No Such Thing As A Sneaky Badger Swapsie, 2021-02-05 · listen

  2. Yeah. It's like one of those which would win in a fight between a thousand bees and one bear. It's like what happened in the Northampton branch of boots on February 2020. There was also in the first century, and this was in Asia Minor, there was the idea of using, and we've spoken about mad honey before, but using mad honey. This is honey that has a poisonous element to it, which a lot of people, if mixed in lightly into a drink, can drink and have a high of it.

    359: No Such Thing As A Sneaky Badger Swapsie, 2021-02-05 · listen

  3. Shoes are fine Yeah, but the shoe lots of shoe traditions hiding shoes in the walls of your building that was not the big one wasn't it? Is that for good luck or yes, it is rainy day? Yes, it is. It's to ward off evil. Ah, evil hate too. Evil, yes. The Northampton made all, basically all the shoes made in the UK came from Northampton for centuries. It was, it was a chew town. That's why the football team is called the Cobblers. Oh, is it? Oh. I didn't know they were.

    518: No Such Thing As Andrew Marvell's Cinematic Universe, 2024-02-15 · listen

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