Great Brington

Great Brington
Great Brington  Great Brington shown within Northamptonshire
OS grid reference	SP665650
Civil parish	Brington
District	Daventry
Shire county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Northampton
Postcode district	NN7
Dialling code	01604
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Daventry
List of places UK England Northamptonshire

Great Brington is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire, England. The village, in the civil parish of Brington, has a population of about 200. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and St John.

Just outside the village is Althorp, the home of the Spencer family and Diana, Princess of Wales. Many conspiracy theorists believe that Diana is in fact buried at Great Brington church - as several of her relatives are, including her father the 8th Earl Spencer, who died in 1992 - and not at Althorp. The death of Diana had quite an effect on the village - the village pub was renamed from "The Fox and Hounds" to the "Althorp Coaching Inn" and the previously sleepy post office gained currency exchange facilities following the large increase in tourism to the area.^{[citation needed]}

The Macmillan Way long distance footpath passes through Great Brington. The disc jockey and television presenter Jo Whiley is from the village.

Geography

Nearby settlements include Little Brington, Nobottle and Long Buckby

Notable people from Great Brington

• Betsy Baker, a supercentenarian who was born in Great Brington and recognized as the world's oldest living person until she died at the age of 113 in August 1955.

External links

Media related to Great Brington at Wikimedia Commons

• BBC feature on Great Brington church
• Great Brington Parish Church website
• Map sources for Great Brington