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 great places to visit near Lings if you like ruins.

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

Castles to visit near Lings include Lilbourne Castle.

Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston are great places to visit near Lings if you like towns.

Don't miss Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden's woodlands if visiting the area around Lings.

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

Lings has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Lings's best nearby parks can be found at Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Don't miss Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Lings.

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

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

The area close to Lings boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Northampton Marina.

Cottesbrooke Hall is a great place to visit close to Lings if you like gardens.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Lings include Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Lings has some unmissable nature reserves nearby like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Lings like Wellingborough War Memorial.

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