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.

The area around Lings features a number of interesting ruins including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

The area around Lings features a number of interesting villages 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's best nearby towns can be found at Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

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

The area around Lings boasts some of the best hiking areas including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Don't miss Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton)'s historic buildings if visiting the area around Lings.

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

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

There are a several good lakes in the Lings area like Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

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

Don't miss Northampton Marina's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Lings.

There are a several good gardens in the area around Lings like Cottesbrooke Hall.

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

Lings'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 Lings if you like historic monuments.

The area close to Lings boasts some of the best museums including Rushden Museum.

Lings History

There are some historic monuments around Lings:

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