TOP TEN TICKET HOTSPOTS: The places in Corby, Kettering, East Northants and Wellingborough where you're most likely to get a parking ticket

Love them or hate them, the antics of parking wardens always get our readers talking.
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Now we can reveal the places in each borough where you’re most likely to get a parking ticket.

Using Freedom of Information laws, we asked the authorities for the top ten ticketing hotspots in each area.

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Northamptonshire County Council wardens are responsible for patrolling Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Northampton, South Northants and Wellingborough. And in Kettering, police officers are responsible for enforcing parking restrictions.

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The most ticketed place in the whole county was Cliftonville in Northampton, which is next to Northampton General Hospital.

There were 2,033 tickets issued in 2015 - nearly six every day.

It means that hospital patients, staff and visitors are among those most likely to get tickets.

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Please let us know in the comments below, or on our Facebook or Twitter pages, if you’ve been ticketed, where it was, and if you think it was fair.

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Here are the total number of tickets issued in 2015 in each parking ticket hotspot in every borough in Northamptonshire.

Corby

1) Parkland Gateway Car Park: 757

2) Everest Lane: 282

3) Cardigan Place: 202

4) Elizabeth Street: 147

5) Wood Street: 64

6) George Street: 58

7) Baird Road: 34

8) Courier Road: 19

9) Argyll Street: 19

10) Stuart Road: 14

East Northamptonshire

1) High Street, Rushden: 401

2) High Street, Irthlingborough: 133

3) West Street, Oundle: 106

4) New Street, Oundle: 87

5) High Street, Higham Ferrers: 85

6) Market Place, Oundle: 70

7) Wellingborough Road, Rushden: 55

8) Victoria Road, Rushden: 50

9) Spencer Road, Rushden: 44

10) High Street, Thrapston: 41

Kettering (all in Kettering town)

1) Market Place: 241

2) George Street: 142

3) Telford Way: 134

4) Montagu Street: 101

5) Silver Street: 73

6) Wellington Street: 67

7) Broadway: 60

8) Sheep Street: 53

9) The Drive: 47

10) School Lane: 45

Wellingborough

1) Midland Road: 522

2) Silver Street: 272

3) Market Square: 213

4) Pebble Lane: 174

5) Park Road: 95

6) Church Street: 83

7) Cambridge Street: 77

8) Washbrook Lane: 68

9) Chester Road: 58

10) Senwick Road: 56

Daventry

1) High Street, Daventry: 181

2) Bowen Square Car Park, Daventry: 159

3) Sheaf Street, Daventry: 42

4) Foundry Place, Daventry: 41

5) High Street Car Park, Daventry: 39

6) Newlands, Daventry: 34

7) Daventry Country Park: 33

8) Pound Lane, Moulton: 31

9) Market Square, Daventry: 20

10) Church Walk, Daventry: 15

Northampton (all in Northampton town)

1) Cliftonville: 2,033

2) St Peters Way Car Park: 1,821

3) Abington Street: 1,421

4) Guildhall Road: 1,251

5) Upper Mounts: 1,233

6) Ridings Car Park: 1,025

7) Commercial Street South Car Park: 1,011

8) St Giles Street: 995

9) Mercers Row: 905

10) Wellingborough Road: 895

South Northants

1) Market Place, Brackley: 285

2) High Street, Brackley: 99

3) Brackley Road, Towcester: 18

4) Banbury Road, Brackley: 16

5) Mill Lane, Stoke Bruerne: 13

6) Buckingham Road, Brackley: 10

7) Halse Road, Brackley: 6

=8) Richmond Road, Towcester: 4

=8) Manor Road, Brackley: 4

=10) Bridge Road, Stoke Bruerne: 3

=10) Hallls Lane, Brackley: 3