Preston Capes is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Preston Capes

There are great places to visit near Preston Capes 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 Preston Capes area like Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Villages to visit near Preston Capes include Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

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

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

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Preston Capes include 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 Preston Capes if you like historic buildings.

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

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

There are a several good lakes in the Preston Capes area like Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Preston Capes include Cotton Manor Garden.

Preston Capes is near some unmissable rivers and streams like Northampton Marina,

Gardens to visit near Preston Capes include Cottesbrooke Hall.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are some of Preston Capes best nature reserves to visit near Preston Capes.

Don't miss Wellingborough War Memorial's historic monuments if visiting the area around Preston Capes.

There are a number of museums near to Preston Capes including Rushden Museum.

Preston Capes History

There are some historic monuments around Preston Capes:

• Sulgrave bowl barrow
• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• Charwelton Bridge
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Windmill Pool moated site and associated water control features
• Earthworks
• Astwell Castle Farm (uninhabited portions)
• Site of Bannaventa
• Site of medieval village of Stutchbury
• Medieval settlement at Wolfhampcote
• Site of the medieval settlement of Kirby
• Everdon Bridge
• 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
• Castle Hill ringwork west of St James's Church
• Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois
• Univallate hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m south east of Castle Dykes Farm
• Roman villa
• Castle Dykes motte and bailey castle
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill
• Byfield market cross
• Lower Thorpe bowl barrow
• Muscott deserted medieval village and double moated site