Great Billing is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Great Billing postcode: NN3 9DU

Retail in Great Billing

There are great places to visit near Great Billing 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.

Great Billing's best nearby ruins can be found at Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

The area around Great Billing boasts some of the best villages including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Lilbourne Castle is a great place to visit close to Great Billing if you like castles.

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

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

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

The area around Great Billing features a number of interesting historic buildings including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

There are a number of parks near Great Billing including Deene Park, Abington Park, Cotton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

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

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

Great Billing is near some unmissable bluebell woods like Cotton Manor Garden,

Don't miss Northampton Marina's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Great Billing.

There are a number of gardens near to Great Billing including Cottesbrooke Hall.

There are a number of nature reserves near Great Billing including Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

The area around Great Billing's best historic monuments can be found at Wellingborough War Memorial.

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

Great Billing History

There are some historic monuments around Great Billing:

• Clifford Hill motte castle
• Bowl barrow 530m north east of Rose Farm
• Saxon palace complex and Saxon and medieval urban deposits in the centre of Northampton
• Abandoned areas of Walgrave Medieval village
• Place House moat and fishpond
• Eleanor Cross 1km south west of Delapre Abbey
• Settlement remains of the medieval village of Horton, to the east and south of the church, including possible C18 militia works..
• Old St John's Church
• Earls Barton motte castle
• Boughton bowl barrow
• Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge
• Roman villa 200m W of Doddington Mill
• Northampton Castle, remains of
• Walgrave moated site.
• Brixworth market cross
• Longmans Hill long barrow