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.

There are a number of ruins near Corby including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Corby has some unmissable villages nearby like Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Lilbourne Castle is one of Corby's best, nearby castles to visit in Corby.

Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston are some of Corby best towns to visit near Corby.

Corby has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton are great places to visit near Corby if you like hiking areas.

There are a several good historic buildings in the Corby area like Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Corby's best nearby parks can be found at Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

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

Don't miss Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir's lakes if visiting the area around Corby.

There are a number of bluebell woods near to Corby including Coton Manor Garden.

The area around Corby's best rivers and streams can be found at Northampton Marina.

Cottesbrooke Hall is a great place to visit close to Corby if you like gardens.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Corby including Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Corby has some unmissable nature reserves nearby like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

Corby is near some unmissable historic monuments like Wellingborough War Memorial,

Museums to visit near Corby include Rushden Museum.

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

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