{"id":5326,"date":"2015-02-20T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-oundle-northamptonshire\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T23:55:56","slug":"lets-move-to-oundle-northamptonshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-oundle-northamptonshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Oundle, Northamptonshire"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHistory oozes from its beautiful golden stone like butter from a toasted muffinWhat\u2019s going for it? You could set a period drama in Oundle. Something starring Penelope Wilton or Mark Rylance. With bodices, doublets and candle-snuffers. Something for a Sunday night on the sofa, after a\u00a0supper of buttery toasted muffins. That\u2019s Oundle. Comforting cosiness in three dimensions. I\u2019m sure all sorts of evil has gone on in this old, old town on the Nene. It\u2019s smothered in history which I\u00a0imagine having soaked into its golden stone like butter into the muffins. Fotheringhay Castle lies just outside, where Richard III was born (boo, hiss), and where Elizabeth I imprisoned and executed Mary Queen of Scots. Though its stumpy foundations provide little to flesh out that evocative story. Such harrowing history has evaporated, and all we are left with to judge the town are its bones. Such beautiful bones though: coloured like a sunset, and formed into Georgian town houses, 17th-century cottages and medieval gables. It\u2019s like an Oxbridge in miniature, its university: the eponymous private school, whose buildings are folded so thoroughly into Oundle\u2019s fabric you are never quite sure if the town is hosting the school, or vice versa.The case against There\u2019s a spirited cultural life, with a\u00a0lit fest and the World Conker Championships, but it\u2019s small, so some might find their attention flags. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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