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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 17/06/2026 21:36:00

For most of its history, Northampton was one of England's most important shoe-manufacturing towns — a fact that continues to define its identity, its museums, and the civic pride of a city that at its peak produced a significant proportion of the world's leather footwear. The shoemaking heritage persists in working craft workshops, the excellent Northampton Museum and Art Gallery (which holds the world's largest collection of historical footwear), and a handful of surviving artisan cordwainers o...