Thorplands is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Thorplands postcode: NN3 8AP

Retail in Thorplands

There are great places to visit near Thorplands 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.

Ruins to visit near Thorplands include Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

There are a several good villages in the Thorplands area like Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Don't miss Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle's castles if visiting the area around Thorplands.

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

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Thorplands include Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Thorplands's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

There are a several good parks in the Thorplands area like Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Thorplands has some unmissable country parks nearby like 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 great places to visit near Thorplands if you like lakes.

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

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

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

Places near Thorplands feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

There are a several good nature reserves in the Thorplands area 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 Thorplands.

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

Thorplands History

There are some historic monuments around Thorplands:

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