This is one of my favourite walks around Kettering and the surrounding countryside. It's a route I've returned to many times, but I'll always remember the first occasion I walked it – during the COVID lockdowns. Like many people, I questioned whether I should or shouldn't have been out walking, but those quiet country paths provided a welcome escape when the world seemed to have come to a standstill.
Starting in Kettering, the route heads out through Weekley before reaching the village of Geddington.
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| Distance: 16.68 km | Start: Google Maps |
| Duration: 04:27 | W3W: ///radio.matter.zebra |
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Walking into the village and seeing the magnificent Eleanor Cross never gets old. Standing here for well over 700 years, it's the best-preserved of the three surviving Eleanor Crosses built by King Edward I in memory of his beloved wife, Eleanor of Castile. It's one of Northamptonshire's true treasures and gives the village a character that's hard to find anywhere else.
From Geddington, the walk continues through more glorious countryside to the picturesque village of Newton before returning to Kettering. It's a route that offers a bit of everything—open farmland, woodland, quiet country lanes and villages full of history.
Even though I first discovered this walk during one of the strangest periods of our lives, it has become much more than a lockdown memory. It's a walk I return to whenever I want to remind myself just how lucky we are to have such beautiful countryside right on our doorstep.
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