Hinton is a Village in the county of Northamptonshire.

Hinton postcode: NN11 3ST

Retail in Hinton

There are great places to visit near Hinton 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.

Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin) are great places to visit near Hinton if you like ruins.

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

Hinton is near some unmissable castles like Lilbourne Castle,

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

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden are some of Hinton best woodlands to visit near Hinton.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton are great places to visit near Hinton if you like hiking areas.

Historic Buildings to visit near Hinton include Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park are great places to visit near Hinton if you like parks.

There are a several good country parks in the Hinton area like Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

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

Coton Manor Garden is a great place to visit close to Hinton if you like bluebell woods.

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

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

Brampton Valley Way at Northampton is one of Hinton's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Hinton.

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

Don't miss Wellingborough War Memorial's historic monuments if visiting the area around Hinton.

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

Hinton History

There are some historic monuments around Hinton:

• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Charwelton Bridge
• Sulgrave bowl barrow
• The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill
• Upper Shuckburgh medieval settlement to the south and east of Shuckburgh Park
• Lower Thorpe bowl barrow
• Arbury Banks
• Site of medieval village of Stutchbury
• Medieval settlement of Priors Hardwick
• Market cross 45m north of church
• Byfield market cross
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Everdon Bridge
• Roman villa
• Medieval settlement immediately north and 170m south of St John the Baptist's Church, Lower Shuckburgh
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois
• Castle Hill ringwork west of St James's Church
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle