Oakham, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Some twenty miles east from Leicester, well-heeled OAKHAM , Rutland's county town, has a long history as a commercial centre, its prosperity bolstered by Oakham School, a late sixteenth-century foundation that's become one of the country's more exclusive private schools. The town's stone terraces and Georgian villas are too often interrupted by the mundanely modern to assume any grace, but Oakham has its architectural moments – particularly in the L-shaped Market Place , where the sturdy awnings of the octagonal Butter Cross shelter the old town stocks. Footsteps from the north side … more »