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According to a few articles online, Northampton was actually capital of England from 931 for a couple of hundred years. I have not found any sources for these claims yet. Northampton has got a cathedral, although it is a Roman Catholic one instead of an Anglican one. Ironically, though that stops Northampton being designated a city now, it wouldn't have in the few hundred years between England's unification and the start of the Anglican church.
102.64 miles as shown here (http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Northampton_UK_and_Manchester_UK.html), or just over 2 hours by train (http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/JourneyDetails.aspx?cacheparam=1).