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There's a certain kind of English town that never quite makes the tourist lists - not because it isn't beautiful, but because the people who know it prefer to keep it that way. Oundle is one of those towns. Tucked into the Nene Valley in north Northamptonshire, Oundle is a medieval market town built almost entirely from honey-coloured limestone. Its streets are lined with independent shops, good pubs, and buildings that haven't changed much since the 17th century. It has a pr

Most small English market towns have a hotel. Some have a decent pub with rooms. What they rarely have is somewhere genuinely luxurious to stay - the kind of place where you walk in, look around, and feel immediately at ease. Oundle has Great Escapes. Three individually designed one-bedroom apartments occupy No. 1 Market Place, a Grade II listed stone building right in the centre of town. They were renovated over six months in 2023 by Gracecliffe Developments, a local company