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Brixworth Country Park (Northants)

Description: Address: Northampton Rd / Brixworth / Northampton / East Midlands / England / Be sure to bring your bike along! Bike ... more

Brixworth Country Park (Northants) ... the seven miles from the park around Pitsford Water.

Newest Review: ... to a sailing club who can be seen tacking back and forth across its waters and are, with the exception of the fishermen, the only people who are allowed to get wet in Pitsford Water. ~ What brings people to the Country Park? ~ I guess different people have differing motivations for visiting but for the majority it's the opportunity to walk, run or cycle in some very attractive countryside. ... more

... Many people bring their dogs although these are supposed to be kept on leads at all times and are forbidden to go in the water. As you can imagine, both rules are widely broken. I don't have a dog but often walk down at the reservoir with a friend who...more

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Brixworth Country Park (Northants): Swanning around in the Country Park (1131 words)
by - written on 16/07/09 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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We Brits are by history (and you could say geography) a sea-faring nation and if we're kept too far from the water some of us get a bit twitchy. Since Northamptonshire is probably statistically about as far from the sea as it's possible to get, having something large and wet in the area is very important to us. For my husband and me, that little bit of watery escape territory is Brixworth Country Park. Brixworth Country Park was opened in 1990 and is a jointly managed project between Anglian Water - the local water supplier - and Northamptonshire County Council. The country park surrounds approximately half of the man-made lake known as Pitsford Water or ... Read the complete review

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