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Burton Latimer Heritage Museum

Burton Latimer Heritage Museum

On the face of it, Burton Latimer is an ordinary small East Midlands town with little to show for its thousands of years existence.

But looking a little more closely, its long history will be revealed. Bronze and Iron Age artefacts were found here and a Romano-British farmstead and cemetery.

We were, like other similar villages, a predominately farming community until the late 1800s when industry began to replace agriculture.

Clothing manufacture, ironstone mining, boot & shoe manufacture, engineering and the manufacture of Weetabix have since been instrumental in the growth of the town.

Burton Latimer Heritage Museum, run by Heritage Society volunteers, is housed the Civic Centre, 120 High Street, a former health centre building owned by the local authority, but the museum is entirely independent.

Contact & Opening Times

Civic Centre, 120 High Street, Burton Latimer, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 5RH


http://www.burtonlatimer.info|
[email protected]|

The museum holds two different themed exhibitions a year. It is open March - June and September - December on Thursdays and Saturdays, 10am to 1pm.

Other times by appointment. Please call ahead if travelling far in case the exhibition is being changed or updated.

There is a research room with hundreds of photographs and research facilities for local and family historians.

The building is disability-friendly and admission is free of charge.

Telehone 01536 722722.

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Visitor Information & Facilities

  • Child friendly
  • Free parking
  • Gift shop
  • The whole family

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