Farthingstone is a Village in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Farthingstone

There are great places to visit near Farthingstone 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 number of ruins near Farthingstone including Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton are some of Farthingstone best villages to visit near Farthingstone.

Farthingstone is near some unmissable castles like Lilbourne Castle,

Farthingstone's best nearby towns can be found at Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Farthingstone has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Cotton Manor Garden.

The area around Farthingstone boasts some of the best hiking areas including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Ravensthorpe Reservoir.

There are a number of historic buildings near Farthingstone including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

Don't miss Deene Park, Abington Park, Cotton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park's parks if visiting the area around Farthingstone.

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

Farthingstone's best nearby lakes can be found at Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Cotton Manor Garden is one of Farthingstone's best, nearby bluebell woods to visit in Farthingstone.

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

Cottesbrooke Hall is one of Farthingstone's best, nearby gardens to visit in Farthingstone.

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

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

There are a several good museums in the area around Farthingstone like Rushden Museum.

Farthingstone History

There are some historic monuments around Farthingstone:

• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Earthworks
• Sulgrave bowl barrow
• Site of Bannaventa
• The Spencer Chapel, Great Brington Church
• Everdon Bridge
• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Site of the medieval settlement of Kirby
• 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
• Castle Dykes motte and bailey castle
• Castle Hill ringwork west of St James's Church
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Windmill Pool moated site and associated water control features
• Astwell Castle Farm (uninhabited portions)
• Site of medieval village of Stutchbury
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois
• Univallate hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m south east of Castle Dykes Farm
• Great Brington village cross