Northampton at a glance
Home to 243527 people and covering NN1, NN2, NN3, NN4 and NN5, this is the key centre of West Northamptonshire, with Northampton station just 0.5 miles from the middle and three University of Northampton sites close by at St John's Hall, University of Northampton Innovation Centre and University of Northampton Waterside Campus. By road it links out quickly to nearby towns: Brixworth is 7.2 miles away in 22 minutes, Earls Barton 8.1 miles in 16 minutes, Towcester 11.1 miles in 23 minutes, Olney 11.8 miles in 25 minutes, Wellingborough 11.9 miles in 21 minutes, Daventry 14.5 miles in 31 minutes, Rushden 15.4 miles in 26 minutes, Kettering 16.8 miles in 34 minutes, Burton Latimer 17.6 miles in 31 minutes and Newport Pagnell 18.8 miles in 29 minutes, with Brackley the nearest main town. Around the edge, smaller places such as Great Houghton (2.7 miles), Little Houghton (3.1 miles), Collingtree and Milton Malsor (3.4 miles), Rothersthorpe (3.5 miles), Kislingbury (3.7 miles), Harpole (4 miles), Hackleton (4.7 miles), Piddington (4.9 miles), Bugbrooke (5.2 miles) and Nether Heyford (6.1 miles) often look into town for moves, storage and shopping. The Grosvenor Centre anchors the centre, with Riverside Retail Park 2.4 miles away and Weston Favell Shopping Centre 2.8 miles, making flat-pack and furniture collections straightforward, while EasyStorage at 1.4 miles, Access Self Storage at 1.9 miles and Loc Box at 7 miles suit loads into and out of self storage. The Northampton Sixfields Household Waste Recycling Centre is 1.5 miles from the centre for tip runs of old furniture, garden waste and clutter to the recycling centre. Typical work here includes flat moves within the town itself, student moves at the start and end of term, single items such as a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe or a washing machine, flat-pack and furniture collected from the retail parks, loads into and out of self storage, and house and flat moves to and from the towns nearby.
Northampton had 243,527 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Grosvenor Centre, Riverside Retail Park and Weston Favell Shopping Centre is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Northampton Sixfields Household Waste Recycling Centre, 1.5 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.