Kettering is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Kettering postcode: NN16 8

Retail in Kettering

There are great places to visit near Kettering 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.

Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin) are great places to visit near Kettering if you like ruins.

The area around Kettering features a number of interesting villages including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle are great places to visit near Kettering if you like castles.

There are a several good towns in the Kettering area like Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

The area around Kettering features a number of interesting woodlands including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton are some of Kettering best hiking areas to visit near Kettering.

The area around Kettering 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).

Kettering's best nearby parks can be found at Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

There are a several good country parks in the Kettering area like Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

There are a number of lakes near Kettering including Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Coton Manor Garden is a great place to visit close to Kettering if you like bluebell woods.

Kettering is near some unmissable rivers and streams like Northampton Marina,

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

Brampton Valley Way at Northampton is a great place to visit close to Kettering if you like disused railway lines.

Kettering has some unmissable nature reserves nearby like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

Kettering is near some unmissable historic monuments like Wellingborough War Memorial,

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

Kettering History

There are some historic monuments around Kettering:

• Geddington Cross: Eleanor cross and conduit house
• Stoke Albany moated site and fishponds
• A late 16th century house, gardens and dovecote, 300m west of Mill Farm
• Cistercian abbey and medieval settlement at Pipewell
• Roman road in Hazel Wood
• Roundhouse or lock-up
• Ditchford Bridge
• Barton Seagrave moats, fishponds and shrunken medieval village remains
• Geddington Bridge
• Rushton Triangular Lodge: an Elizabethan warrener's lodge and rabbit warren
• Tithe barn
• Walgrave moated site.
• Round barrow W of Pipewell Upper Lodge
• Abandoned areas of Walgrave Medieval village
• Little Weldon Roman villa