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.

There are a number of ruins near Corby including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

There are a several good villages in the Corby area like Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

There are a several good castles in the Corby area like Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

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

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

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton are great places to visit near Corby if you like hiking areas.

The area around Corby features a number of interesting historic buildings including 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 some of Corby best parks to visit near 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.

Corby has some unmissable lakes nearby like Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Corby include Northampton Marina.

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

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

Don't miss Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Corby.

Wellingborough War Memorial is one of Corby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Corby.

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

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

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