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**Distance:** 3.6 miles (5.8km)
**Difficulty:** Mostly flat walking but a couple of steeper sections on a mixture of hard village & field paths

We will start our walk from the Market Square so park nearby in the surrounding area.

Long Buckby is hill top village, located around 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-east of the town of Daventry, and roughly midway between Northampton and Rugby, with each being around 9 miles (14 km) to the south-east and north-west respectively. The west of the parish has the A5 road, Grand Union Canal, West Coast Main Line railway and M1 motorway all passing through the Watford Gap, with Watford, Northamptonshire being the next village to the north.

Long Buckby was once a thriving industrial village: In the 17th century, a woolen industry was established, and Long Buckby became a centre of weaving and woolcombing. After 1800 this went into decline and was replaced by a thriving shoemaking industry. This was enhanced by the arrival of the Grand Union Canal nearby in the early 19th century, upon which Long Buckby had a busy wharf. The shoemaking industry went into gradual decline in the 20th century and had died out by 2000.

Long Buckby has a history going back approximately 1,000 years to the Vikings when all of northern, central and eastern England came under the Danelaw. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book as Buchebei, its prefix was first recorded in the Elizabethan era in reference to the length of the village.
Near the centre of the village are the remaining earthworks of a medieval castle, which was probably built by the lords of the manor, the de Quincy family in the 12th century. The castle was likely an earth and timber construction, built by 1150 AD, and occupied until some time after 1200 AD. The surviving earthworks known locally as 'The Mounts' consist of an oval ring surrounded by a ditch.

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