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.

The area around Corby boasts some of the best ruins including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

The area around Corby features a number of interesting villages including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Castles to visit near Corby include Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

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

Corby has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Hiking Areas to visit near Corby include Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton) are great places to visit near Corby if you like historic buildings.

Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park are some of Corby best parks to visit near Corby.

Corby's best nearby country parks can be found at Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir are great places to visit near Corby if you like lakes.

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

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

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

Brampton Valley Way at Northampton is a great place to visit close to Corby if you like disused railway lines.

Corby has some unmissable nature reserves nearby like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Corby including Wellingborough War Memorial.

Places near Corby feature a number of interesting museums including Rushden Museum.

Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Corby:

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