Blisworth

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Blisworth is a village and civil parish in the South Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, in England. It is about six miles south of Northampton, and according to the 2001 census had a population of 1,786.

[edit] Transport

The village is the site of the Blisworth Tunnel, a tunnel for the Grand Union Canal.

The London and Birmingham Railway, under the surveying and construction control of Robert Stephenson, built a bypass loop around Northampton and opened a station in Blisworth in 1839. In 1855, after much discussion, Lord Grafton agreed to fund a new station as long as it was a "first class" station - ie, all trains stopped at it. Ford Lane became Station Road, and opposite the new station was built Blisworth Hotel by Thomas Shaw, the proprietor of the Angel Hotel in Northampton. In 1845 a branch line on to Peterborough was completed, and in 1866 a single track line was completed to Banbury. The station closed in January 1960.