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Moulton Park is a large industrial estate and former civil parish, now in the parish of Northampton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is near the village of Moulton, a few miles north of the town of Northampton.

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Bradlaugh Fields
Bradlaugh Fields

Bradlaugh Fields is a 60-hectare (150-acre) open space in Northampton. The site is a former golf course. In 1987 it was proposed to build housing on the site, but after a campaign by local residents it was acquired by Northampton Borough Council and opened as a wildlife park in 1998. It was named after Charles Bradlaugh, a leading nineteenth century radical and atheist who was MP for Northampton. Three fields with a total area of 17.5 hectares are managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire as a nature reserve also called Bradlaugh Fields. Hills and Holes is at the southern end and two adjoining meadows, Scrub Field and Quarry Field, are at the northern end. Hills and Holes is an 8.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve (LNR) and Scrub Field is a 5.1-hectare (13-acre) LNR.Bradlaugh Fields nature reserve has ancient hedgerows and unimproved grassland. Birds include blue tits, chiffchaffs, great spotted woodpeckers, sparrowhawks, redwings and fieldfares. Hill and Holes is an ancient disused quarry which has grassed ridges and hollows, some of them steeply sloping. There are a variety of habitats including limestone grassland. Scrub Field has a diverse selection of wild flowers, including Knautia arvensis and knapweed in higher areas, and bird's-foot trefoil and yellow rattle lower down. There is access to Hills and Holes from Kettering Road, and other access points include a footpath from Aintree Road which passes between Scrub Field and Quarry Field.

Moulton School and Science College

Moulton School & Science College is a secondary school with academy status located in the village of Moulton, Northamptonshire. Formerly known as Moulton School, the founding headmaster was Leslie Alfred Scott (1914-1999), who was headmaster from 1954 until his retirement in 1979. He established the school motto - "Fill the Unforgiving Minute". He also established the first house system (Hilary, Bannister, Fleming and Whittle) and created the school crest. Two new houses were added, Scott and Petit, after Scott retired in 1979. As of 2019, the school as of 2019 had 1,355 students on roll, including in the sixth form, and 135 teachers. It is a school for ages 11–18. The school was granted specialist Science College status in 2002, and this was re-designated in 2007.The acting headteacher, as of March 2021, is Angie Dabbs. The school used to separate the students into four different houses named after the Northamptonshire houses of Holdenby House, Althorp, Rockingham, and Sulgrave Manor. They had different colour ties to represent them: blue for Althorp, green for Holdenby, red for Rockingham and yellow for Sulgrave, but since the 2012–13 academic year, the school has year groups consisting of eight classes per year, instead of houses. The colours for each year are rotated. As of 2022, The year colours are as follows. Gold (Year 7) , Blue (Year 8) , Green (Year 9) , Black (Year 10) Silver (Year 11). They rotate every year.As of 2022, The houses have been renamed to Hunsbury (Green), Ravensthorpe (Red), Stanwick (Yellow) and Barnwell (Blue). The school serves students from Moulton, Pitsford, Boughton, Brixworth, Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Old, Kingsthorpe, Walgrave, Harlestone, Rectory Farm, Holcot and Sywell.In June 2013, it received a "Good" report from Ofsted. which was confirmed in 2017.