[2] Other significant settlements in size included Deanshanger, Bugbrooke, Roade, King's Sutton, Silverstone and Middleton Cheney.

[n 4] The district was shaped approximately like the Christian cross in an ENE orientation extending from its top at the southeast of Northampton and reaching to a north–south line south-by-southeast of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

An additional arm near its foot reached north through the large village of Chipping Warden to Upper Boddington.

Land was taken up with for the most part with arable agriculture peppered by villages, however allows space for two towns of significant size.

The district in terms of watercourses had sources and headwaters of the rivers Cherwell, Great Ouse and Nene.