It has long been a matter of dispute as to where the exact centre of England is. Northamptonians claim this honour for themselves, whereas the inhabitants of both Corby and Market Harborough would hotly dispute this. If you draw a line on a map from the Bristol Channel to the Wash, and measure exactly exactly half way along it, the point rests exactly on Northampton. In other words, Northampton is the furthest from the sea in any direction. However, if you use the correct method - and that is to make a two-dimensional model of England and suspend it from a string at the point where the model exactly balances - you will discover the centre in a field somewhere slightly north of Northampton.

Two things are undisputed about the image though:

This sort of place is where we will all end up.

This is the dead centre of Castle Ashby.