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.

Corby's best nearby ruins can be found at 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 is a great place to visit close to Corby if you like castles.

Corby's best nearby towns can be found at Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Don't miss Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden's woodlands if visiting the area around Corby.

The area around Corby boasts some of the best hiking areas including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Historic Buildings to visit near Corby include Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Parks to visit near Corby include 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.

Lakes to visit near Corby include Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

The area around Corby's best bluebell woods can be found at Coton Manor Garden.

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

The area close to Corby boasts some of the best gardens including Cottesbrooke Hall.

Brampton Valley Way at Northampton is a great place to visit close to Corby if you like disused railway lines.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are some of Corby best nature reserves to visit near Corby.

Places near Corby feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Wellingborough War Memorial.

Places near Corby feature a number of interesting museums including Rushden Museum.

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

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