Great Houghton is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Great Houghton

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

Great Houghton has some unmissable villages nearby like Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

The area around Great Houghton's best castles can be found at Lilbourne Castle.

Don't miss Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston's towns if visiting the area around Great Houghton.

There are a several good woodlands in the Great Houghton area like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

The area around Great Houghton features a number of interesting hiking areas including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

There are a number of historic buildings near Great Houghton 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 number of parks near Great Houghton including Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

There are a number of country parks near Great Houghton including Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

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

There are a several good bluebell woods in the area around Great Houghton like Coton Manor Garden.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Great Houghton like Northampton Marina.

Gardens to visit near Great Houghton include Cottesbrooke Hall.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Great Houghton including Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are great places to visit near Great Houghton if you like nature reserves.

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

Rushden Museum is a great place to visit close to Great Houghton if you like museums.

Great Houghton History

There are some historic monuments around Great Houghton:

• Old St John's Church
• Roman villa SE of Stokegap Lodge
• Place House moat and fishpond
• Clifford Hill motte castle
• Bowl barrow 530m north east of Rose Farm
• Ravenstone Priory, moats and fishponds
• Boughton bowl barrow
• Multivallate hillfort at Hunsbury Hill
• Saxon palace complex and Saxon and medieval urban deposits in the centre of Northampton
• Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey
• Northampton Castle, remains of
• Settlement remains of the medieval village of Horton, to the east and south of the church, including possible C18 militia works..
• Earls Barton motte castle
• Ashton Manor moated site
• Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• Longmans Hill long barrow