Brigstock is a Village in the county of Northamptonshire.

Brigstock postcode: NN14 3HG

Retail in Brigstock

There are great places to visit near Brigstock 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.

Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin) are great places to visit near Brigstock if you like ruins.

There are a number of villages near Brigstock including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Brigstock has some unmissable castles nearby like Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

Don't miss Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston's towns if visiting the area around Brigstock.

The area around Brigstock features a number of interesting woodlands including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Brigstock has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Brigstock'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).

There are a several good parks in the Brigstock area like Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Brigstock has some unmissable country parks nearby like Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

The area around Brigstock features a number of interesting lakes including Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Coton Manor Garden is a great place to visit close to Brigstock if you like bluebell woods.

Northampton Marina is a great place to visit close to Brigstock if you like rivers and streams.

There are a several good gardens in the area around Brigstock like Cottesbrooke Hall.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Brigstock like Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

There are a several good nature reserves in the Brigstock area like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Brigstock like Wellingborough War Memorial.

There are a number of museums near to Brigstock including Rushden Museum.

Brigstock History

There are some historic monuments around Brigstock:

• Iron Age enclosure
• Medieval settlement remains at Woodford
• Barton Seagrave moats, fishponds and shrunken medieval village remains
• Geddington Cross: Eleanor cross and conduit house
• Remains of manor house and garden
• Geddington Bridge
• A late 16th century house, gardens and dovecote, 300m west of Mill Farm
• Three Hills round barrows
• Little Weldon Roman villa
• Blatherwycke medieval village remains
• Bowl barrow 700m north of Woodford Mill
• Lyveden New Building and garden
• Roman villa
• Upper Lyveden moated site
• Slipton Lodge moated site.
• Roman road in Hazel Wood
• Benefield Castle
• Kirby Hall: an Elizabethan country house and gardens, including the remains of the medieval village of Kirby
• A late Anglo-Saxon or early medieval fortified manorial complex to the west of Wadenhoe village, including part of an associated deer park.
• Roman timber bridge over Harper Brook
• Market cross 8m west of the Market House
• Roundhouse or lock-up