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Towcester
Market town in Northamptonshire, England

Towcester

Towcester is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England.

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From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative centre of the South Northamptonshire district.

Get in

Getting to Towcester

Northampton, 10 mi (16 km) away has the nearest rail station. Infrequent buses link to there.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    St Lawrence's Church

    Old town hall.

  2. 02
    Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
  3. 03
    Bury Mount
  4. 04
    Towcester Museum

    163-165 Watling St.

Do

Things to do

Towcester racecourse has closed. It held National Hunt races (jumps, in winter) from 1928 to 2018 but then went bust, and in 2019 it was announced that it won't be re-opening.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Brave Old Oak

    Watling St, NN12 6BT.

How locals move

Getting around Towcester the local way

  • Get inA new off-road cycleway connects Buckingham to Winslow via Padbury and Adstock, following the route of the A413.

From Wikivoyage: Buckingham, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Jackerbox cult (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.