Corby is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Corby postcode: NN17 1

Retail in Corby

There are great places to visit near Corby including some great ruins, villages, castles, towns, woodlands, hiking areas, historic buildings, parks, country parks, lakes, bluebell woods, rivers and streams, gardens, disused railway lines, nature reserves, historic monuments and museums.

The area around Corby boasts some of the best ruins including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton are some of Corby best villages to visit near Corby.

Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle are great places to visit near Corby if you like castles.

There are a number of towns near Corby including Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden are some of Corby best woodlands to visit near Corby.

Hiking Areas to visit near Corby include Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Corby's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Don't miss Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park's parks if visiting the area around Corby.

Corby's best nearby country parks can be found at Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

Corby has some unmissable lakes nearby like Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Corby include Coton Manor Garden.

The area close to Corby boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Northampton Marina.

The area around Corby's best gardens can be found at Cottesbrooke Hall.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Corby include Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

The area around Corby boasts some of the best nature reserves including Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Wellingborough War Memorial's historic monuments if visiting the area around Corby.

The area close to Corby boasts some of the best museums including Rushden Museum.

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

• Market cross 10m west of Cross Farmhouse
• Rushton Triangular Lodge: an Elizabethan warrener's lodge and rabbit warren
• Rockingham Castle, shrunken medieval village, moat and warrens
• Deserted medieval village on A6003, Snelston
• Iron Age enclosure
• Moated site 1km south west of Rockingham Castle
• Standing cross on The Green, 130m north west of The Bede House
• Geddington Bridge
• Slipton Lodge moated site.
• Roundhouse or lock-up
• Lyddington Bedehouse: a medieval bishop's palace and post-medieval almshouse with moat, gardens, fishponds and cultivation remains
• Market cross 8m west of the Market House
• Roman road in Hazel Wood
• Geddington Cross: Eleanor cross and conduit house
• Little Weldon Roman villa
• A late 16th century house, gardens and dovecote, 300m west of Mill Farm
• Round barrow W of Pipewell Upper Lodge
• Cistercian abbey and medieval settlement at Pipewell
• Kirby Hall: an Elizabethan country house and gardens, including the remains of the medieval village of Kirby