Park Town is a Town in the county of Bedfordshire.

Park Town postcode: LU1 3NU

Retail in Park Town

There are great places to visit near Park Town including some great towns, nature reserves, ancient sites, hills, woodlands, rivers and streams, villages, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and shopping centres.

The area around Park Town features a number of interesting towns including Sandy, Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Cranfield, and Biggleswade.

There are a several good nature reserves in the Park Town area like RSPB The Lodge, and Sharnbrook Summit.

Don't miss Galley Hill Hillfort, and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill's ancient sites if visiting the area around Park Town.

Galley Hill Hillfort, and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill are some of Park Town best hills to visit near Park Town.

Don't miss The Everton Estate's woodlands if visiting the area around Park Town.

River Great Ouse at Bedford is one of Park Town's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Park Town.

Villages to visit near Park Town include Stevington, Cardington, Willington - Bedford, Whipsnade, Stewartby, Aspley Guise, and Great Barford.

Park Town has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Stevington Windmill, Willington Dovecote and Stables, Bedford School Chapel, Stewartby Brickworks, Great Barford Bridge, Market Place Woburn, and Town Hall at Woburn.

Don't miss Priory Country Park, and Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate's country parks if visiting the area around Park Town.

The area around Park Town's best lakes can be found at Priory Lake.

The Mall Luton is a great place to visit close to Park Town if you like shopping centres.

Park Town History

There are some historic monuments around Park Town:

• Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house
• Someries Castle: a medieval magnate's residence and formal garden remains
• Dray's Ditches
• Moated site in Pegsdon Belt
• Toot Hill motte and bailey castle and shrunken medieval village at Pirton
• Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's Bank
• Rothamsted Romano-British cemetery
• The Aubreys camp
• Moated site and associated enclosure at Rectory Farm
• Barrow at Telegraph Hill
• Bowl barrow at Knocking Knoll, 640m E of Pegsdon Common Farm
• Ravensburgh Castle
• Bowl barrow in Tingley Field Plantation, near Pegsdon
• Anglo-Saxon settlement, and probable prehistoric ring ditches, west of Pirton village
• Strip lynchets on Stopsley Common
• Sharpenhoe Clappers: an Iron Age promontory fort, medieval warren and associated medieval cultivation earthworks
• Medieval village 100m west of Zouches Farm
• Moated Site and Associated Earthworks at Bury Farm, Sharpenhoe
• Dray's Ditches