Find My Favourite Holiday Cottages in Maidford

The small village of Maidford is set amid unspoiled countryside in the county of Northamptonshire, six miles northwest of Towcester. Once a centre for lace-making, it is an ancient community where the graceful Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul dates back to the 13th century. It is a designated conservation village with fine architecture and medieval fish ponds. The village is little more than a scattering of homes along a couple of lanes lined with hedgerows and drystone walls. Along King Street and Chapel Lane are fine limestone buildings with steeply pitched roofs of local slate or tile. Look out for the red-brick chapel, which was built in 1858. There are no shops within walking distance of holiday cottages in Maidford, but visitors will find supermarkets and the excellent Linden Barn Farm Shop in the town of Towcester, a short drive eastward. For good food and a pint of local ale, try the Butchers Arms in the neighbouring village of Greens Norton. Northamptonshire is known for its idyllic countryside. On the doorstep of your holiday cottage in Maidford, you will discover fields, woods, canals and deer parks dotted with Elizabethan manors and royal hunting lodges.