Great Billing is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Great Billing postcode: NN3 9DU

Retail in Great Billing

There are great places to visit near Great Billing 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 Great Billing features a number of interesting ruins including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

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

Don't miss Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle's castles if visiting the area around Great Billing.

Great Billing's best nearby towns can be found at Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

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

There are a several good hiking areas in the Great Billing area like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

The area around Great Billing boasts some of the best historic buildings including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

The area around Great Billing boasts some of the best parks including Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Great Billing has some unmissable country parks nearby like 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 some of Great Billing best lakes to visit near Great Billing.

Great Billing is near some unmissable bluebell woods like Coton Manor Garden,

Rivers and Streams to visit near Great Billing include Northampton Marina.

Cottesbrooke Hall is one of Great Billing's best, nearby gardens to visit in Great Billing.

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

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

Historic Monuments to visit near Great Billing include Wellingborough War Memorial.

Great Billing is near some unmissable museums like Rushden Museum,

Great Billing History

There are some historic monuments around Great Billing:

• Longmans Hill long barrow
• Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge
• Old St John's Church
• Place House moat and fishpond
• Boughton bowl barrow
• Clifford Hill motte castle
• Abandoned areas of Walgrave Medieval village
• Bowl barrow 530m north east of Rose Farm
• Brixworth market cross
• Saxon palace complex and Saxon and medieval urban deposits in the centre of Northampton
• Settlement remains of the medieval village of Horton, to the east and south of the church, including possible C18 militia works..
• Roman villa 200m W of Doddington Mill
• Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey
• Northampton Castle, remains of
• Earls Barton motte castle
• Walgrave moated site.