Short lets for a few nights near Daventry

Daventry's centre holds 74 listed buildings, led by the grade I Church of the Holy Cross. The ironstone Moot Hall of 1769 stands on the north side of the Market Square and the Saracen's Head, another grade II* coaching inn, now trades as a pub. The Burton Memorial of 1908, at the junction of High Street and Market Square, is one of the town's best-known landmarks.

A street market fills High Street every Tuesday and Friday, beside the Bowen Square shopping precinct. Daniel Defoe called Daventry a considerable market town living on the travellers of the old Watling Street. It flourished in the coaching age before the railway took the trade away.

Humber Hub is about 18 miles by road from Daventry, Stoke Lodge and Stoke House about 19 miles and Sullivan Heights about 21 miles. A short let means a kitchen for breakfast and space to spread out, with free parking at the house.

Charles I stayed at the Wheatsheaf on Sheaf Street before the Battle of Naseby in 1645; the inn closed in 1990 and is now a nursing home.

Folklore once read the old pronunciation, Daintry, as Dane Tree, though Dafa's tree is the likelier origin. Two country parks frame the town, one around a canal reservoir and one on Borough Hill.

The Moot Hall has served as a council building, a museum, an Indian restaurant and a children's nursery.