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 several good ruins in the Great Billing area like Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton are great places to visit near Great Billing if you like villages.

The area around Great Billing features a number of interesting castles including Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

There are a several good towns in the Great Billing area like Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

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

Great Billing has some unmissable hiking areas nearby 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).

There are a several good parks in the Great Billing area like 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 great places to visit near Great Billing if you like lakes.

The area close to Great Billing boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Coton Manor Garden.

Northampton Marina is a great place to visit close to Great Billing if you like rivers and streams.

Don't miss Cottesbrooke Hall's gardens if visiting the area around 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.

Wellingborough War Memorial is a great place to visit close to Great Billing if you like historic monuments.

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

Great Billing History

There are some historic monuments around Great Billing:

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