Byfield is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Byfield

There are great places to visit near Byfield 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.

Don't miss Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin)'s ruins if visiting the area around Byfield.

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

Byfield's best nearby castles can be found at Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

Towns to visit near Byfield include Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

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

There are a number of hiking areas near Byfield including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

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

Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park are great places to visit near Byfield if you like parks.

Byfield has some unmissable country parks nearby like 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 Byfield.

Don't miss Coton Manor Garden's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Byfield.

Northampton Marina is one of Byfield's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Byfield.

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

The area around Byfield's best disused railway lines can be found at Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are great places to visit near Byfield if you like nature reserves.

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

Rushden Museum is one of Byfield's best, nearby museums to visit in Byfield.

Byfield History

There are some historic monuments around Byfield:

• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Roman villa
• Arbury Banks
• Market cross 45m north of church
• Medieval settlement immediately north and 170m south of St John the Baptist's Church, Lower Shuckburgh
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• Castle Hill ringwork west of St James's Church
• The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill
• Medieval settlement of Priors Hardwick
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Lower Thorpe bowl barrow
• Upper Shuckburgh medieval settlement to the south and east of Shuckburgh Park
• Charwelton Bridge
• Byfield market cross
• Sulgrave bowl barrow
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Site of medieval village of Stutchbury