Lings is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Lings postcode: NN3 8LS

Retail in Lings

There are great places to visit near Lings 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 some of Lings best ruins to visit near Lings.

There are a number of villages near Lings including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

There are a number of castles near Lings including Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

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

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

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

The area around Lings features a number of interesting historic buildings including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Don't miss Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park's parks if visiting the area around Lings.

The area around Lings boasts some of the best country parks including Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

Lings's best nearby lakes can be found at Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Don't miss Coton Manor Garden's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Lings.

Places near Lings feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including Northampton Marina.

Places near Lings feature a number of interesting gardens including Cottesbrooke Hall.

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

The area around Lings boasts some of the best nature reserves including Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

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

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

Lings History

There are some historic monuments around Lings:

• Clifford Hill motte castle
• Walgrave moated site.
• Brixworth market cross
• Great house and gardens at Hanging Houghton
• Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge
• Earls Barton motte castle
• Place House moat and fishpond
• Northampton Castle, remains of
• Abandoned areas of Walgrave Medieval village
• 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
• Old St John's Church
• Bowl barrow 530m north east of Rose Farm
• Settlement remains of the medieval village of Horton, to the east and south of the church, including possible C18 militia works..
• Longmans Hill long barrow
• Boughton bowl barrow