Corby is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Corby postcode: NN17 1

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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).

Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton are some of Corby best villages to visit near Corby.

There are a several good castles in the area around Corby like Lilbourne Castle.

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

Corby's best nearby woodlands can be found at Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

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

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).

Don't miss Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park's parks if visiting the area around Corby.

There are a several good country parks in the Corby area 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 Corby.

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

Places near Corby feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including Northampton Marina.

The area around Corby's best gardens can be found at Cottesbrooke Hall.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Corby include Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Corby's best nearby nature reserves can be found at Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

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

Don't miss Rushden Museum's museums if visiting the area around Corby.

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

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