Headlands is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Headlands postcode: NN3 3JR

Retail in Headlands

There are great places to visit near Headlands 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.

Ruins to visit near Headlands include Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

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

There are a several good castles in the Headlands area like Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

Headlands has some unmissable towns nearby like Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden are great places to visit near Headlands if you like woodlands.

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

Headlands'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).

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

Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park are great places to visit near Headlands if you like country parks.

The area around Headlands boasts some of the best lakes including Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

There are a number of bluebell woods near to Headlands including Coton Manor Garden.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Headlands include Northampton Marina.

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

Headlands is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Brampton Valley Way at Northampton,

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

Headlands is near some unmissable historic monuments like Wellingborough War Memorial,

There are a number of museums near to Headlands including Rushden Museum.

Headlands History

There are some historic monuments around Headlands:

• Earthworks
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Site of Bannaventa
• Univallate hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m south east of Castle Dykes Farm
• Medieval settlement at Wolfhampcote
• Muscott deserted medieval village and double moated site
• Braunstonbury deserted medieval village, moat and fishpond
• Watford Park: C18 garden remains overlying the shrunken medieval village of Watford and associated ridge and furrow cultivation
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Charwelton Bridge
• Medieval village of Fawcliff, Braunston Cleves
• Moated site S of Manor Farm House
• Watling Street Roman Road
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe
• Castle Dykes motte and bailey castle
• Medieval settlement of Ashby St Ledgers
• Upper Shuckburgh medieval settlement to the south and east of Shuckburgh Park
• Windmill Pool moated site and associated water control features
• Abandoned medieval village of Onley
• Barby motte castle
• Hillmorton Village Cross
• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Long Buckby ringwork and bailey
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Round mound at Hillmorton
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Everdon Bridge
• Byfield market cross
• Dower House, Fawsley Park