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.

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

Great Billing's best nearby villages can be found at Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

The area close to Great Billing boasts some of the best castles including Lilbourne Castle.

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

Woodlands to visit near Great Billing include Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton are some of Great Billing best hiking areas to visit near Great Billing.

Great Billing's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Parks to visit near Great Billing include Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

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

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

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

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Great Billing including 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.

Nature Reserves to visit near Great Billing include Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Great Billing like Wellingborough War Memorial.

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

Great Billing History

There are some historic monuments around Great Billing:

• Brixworth market cross
• Old St John's Church
• Longmans Hill long barrow
• Northampton Castle, remains of
• Boughton bowl barrow
• Bowl barrow 530m north east of Rose Farm
• Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge
• Roman villa 200m W of Doddington Mill
• Earls Barton motte castle
• Abandoned areas of Walgrave Medieval village
• Place House moat and fishpond
• 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..
• Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey
• Clifford Hill motte castle
• Walgrave moated site.