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Brixworth is a large village north of Northampton, home to All Saints' Church — one of the finest Saxon churches in England — and close to Pitsford Water, the county reservoir whose surrounding meadows and woodland blocks are among the best wildlife habitat in Northamptonshire. Hawthorn, hazel and bramble hedge the reservoir margins and the ridge-top farmland around the village.

The county opens on a mix of oilseed rape and field beans across the arable belt between Kettering and Daventry. Hawthorn, blackthorn and field maple line the ironstone walls and quickset hedges. The estate woodlands — Rockingham, Salcey, Whittlewood — produce a sweet-chestnut and lime flow in June, particularly in the older planting blocks. Bramble is dense along the Nene Valley; rosebay willowherb flushes the disused quarry and railway land; and ivy in ironstone villages gives a generous late crop.