Maidford is a Village in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Maidford

There are great places to visit near Maidford 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.

Don't miss Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin)'s ruins if visiting the area around Maidford.

Villages to visit near Maidford include Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

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

Towns to visit near Maidford include Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

The area around Maidford boasts some of the best woodlands including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

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

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 Maidford.

Parks to visit near Maidford include Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

There are a number of country parks near Maidford including Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir are some of Maidford best lakes to visit near Maidford.

Maidford is near some unmissable bluebell woods like Coton Manor Garden,

Rivers and Streams to visit near Maidford include Northampton Marina.

The area around Maidford's best gardens can be found at Cottesbrooke Hall.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Maidford like Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Maidford has some unmissable nature reserves nearby like 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 Maidford.

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

Maidford History

There are some historic monuments around Maidford:

• Site of medieval village of Stutchbury
• Everdon Bridge
• Windmill Pool moated site and associated water control features
• Castle Hill ringwork west of St James's Church
• The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill
• Sulgrave bowl barrow
• Site of the medieval settlement of Kirby
• Earthworks
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Old Mountains moat, fishpond and warren
• Univallate hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m south east of Castle Dykes Farm
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Muscott deserted medieval village and double moated site
• Astwell Castle Farm (uninhabited portions)
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois
• Castle Dykes motte and bailey castle