Badby is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Badby

There are great places to visit near Badby including some great ruins, villages, castles, towns, woodlands, hiking areas, historic buildings, parks, country parks, lakes, bluebell woods, rivers and streams, gardens, nature reserves, historic monuments and museums.

There are a several good ruins in the Badby area like Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Badby's best nearby villages can be found at Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

There are a number of castles near to Badby including Lilbourne Castle.

There are a number of towns near Badby including Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

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

Badby has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Ravensthorpe Reservoir.

Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton) are great places to visit near Badby if you like historic buildings.

Badby has some unmissable parks nearby like Deene Park, Abington Park, Cotton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Badby has some unmissable country parks nearby like Sywell Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

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

The area close to Badby boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cotton Manor Garden.

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

The area close to Badby boasts some of the best gardens including Cottesbrooke Hall.

Don't miss Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Badby.

Wellingborough War Memorial is one of Badby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Badby.

Rushden Museum is one of Badby's best, nearby museums to visit in Badby.

Badby History

There are some historic monuments around Badby:

• Watford Park: C18 garden remains overlying the shrunken medieval village of Watford and associated ridge and furrow cultivation
• Braunstonbury deserted medieval village, moat and fishpond
• Charwelton Bridge
• Medieval village of Fawcliff, Braunston Cleves
• Byfield market cross
• Medieval settlement at Wolfhampcote
• Univallate hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m south east of Castle Dykes Farm
• Roman villa
• Upper Shuckburgh medieval settlement to the south and east of Shuckburgh Park
• Medieval settlement of Ashby St Ledgers
• Market cross 45m north of church
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe
• Long Buckby ringwork and bailey
• Castle Dykes motte and bailey castle
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Moated site S of Manor Farm House
• Muscott deserted medieval village and double moated site
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Site of Bannaventa
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Everdon Bridge