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Brampton Valley Way (Northampton)

Description: The park has great cycling trails for outdoor enthusiasts. Park is located in Northamptonshire.

Newest Review: ... December. We'd parked up at the Brampton Halt, a very popular local pub (review already posted) just outside the idyllic village of Chapel Brampton and we'd started our walk from that point. This is a great place to see the BVW because the old railway keeper's cottage has been converted into a pub and a group of steam railway enthusiasts have kept a short stretch of the line open in order to ... more

... run steam trains up and down the line. We walked only a fairly short section before turning off the line and heading towards the Bramptons on a circular route. On a sunny spring Sunday afternoon, my husband and I decided we'd better go and have a look...more

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Brampton Valley Way (Northampton): Psychopath and Cycle Path - is it just coincidence that they ... (838 words)
by - written on 07/07/09 (Very useful, 158 readings)
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When the good folk of Northampton feel the urge to escape the town in search of exercise and good clean country air there are two key venues that act as magnets for their attention and both of these are not far from where I live. They are Brixworth Country Park and the Brampton Valley Way. The Brampton Valley Way runs along the now-disused railway line which used to join Northampton to Market Harborough. During the mass railway closures of the 1960s, this line was a victim although local rail enthusiasts succeeded in keeping parts of the line running for another 20 years before finally having to admit defeat. With the typical 'silver-lining' approach that ... Read the complete review