Lings is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Lings postcode: NN3 8LS

Retail in Lings

There are great places to visit near Lings 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 Lings if you like ruins.

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

The area around Lings boasts some of the best castles including Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

Lings has some unmissable towns nearby like Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Lings's best nearby woodlands can be found at Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Lings has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

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 Lings if you like historic buildings.

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

Lings's best nearby country parks can be found at Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

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

Bluebell Woods to visit near Lings include Coton Manor Garden.

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Lings including Northampton Marina.

Gardens to visit near Lings include Cottesbrooke Hall.

The area around Lings's best disused railway lines can be found at Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Lings's best nearby nature reserves can be found at Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

Places near Lings feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Wellingborough War Memorial.

Lings is near some unmissable museums like Rushden Museum,

Lings History

There are some historic monuments around Lings:

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