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Photo of Wicksteed Park, a visitor attraction near Lowick, Northamptonshire, central England.

Wicksteed Park© Dot Potter / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Wellingborough StationWellingborough

29 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of the River Nene, a 91-mile river navigation running from Northampton to near Wisbech, England.Highlight

River Nene

River navigation

Guillotine-gated locks and water meadows from Northampton to Peterborough, where the Nene slips out into the Fens.

1.1 km SE · Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire

Photo of Wicksteed Park, a visitor attraction near Lowick, Northamptonshire, central England.Highlight

Wicksteed Park

Attraction near Lowick

Historic Kettering pleasure park, one of Britain's oldest, with heritage rides, a boating lake and vast open green.

9.2 km N

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Photo of St Mary, Wellingborough, a church in Northamptonshire, central England.

St Mary, Wellingborough

Church near Wellingborough

Ninian Comper's early 20th-century masterpiece, a richly gilded interior beneath a tower visible for miles.

0.3 km W

Photo of Irchester Country Park, a country park near Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, central England.

Irchester Country Park

Country park near Earls Barton

A country park in Northamptonshire.

1.7 km S

Saxby's Cider

Farm & farm shop near Farndish

Family cider maker at Farndish in the Nene valley, pressing its own orchard apples with farm-gate and event sales.

4 km SE

Photo of Chichele College, Higham Ferrers, a landmark near Felmersham, Northamptonshire, central England.

Chichele College, Higham Ferrers

Landmark near Felmersham

Gatehouse, chapel and walls of a priests' college founded in the 1420s by Henry Chichele, the Higham Ferrers man who became Archbishop of Canterbury.

5.7 km E

Photo of Stanwick Lakes Country Park, a country park near Lowick, Northamptonshire, central England.

Stanwick Lakes Country Park

Country park near Lowick

A country park in Northamptonshire.

5.9 km NE

Earls Barton

Village

Nene-valley village built on shoemaking, its Saxon church tower a celebrated masterpiece of pilaster-strip stonework from around 970.

6.5 km SW · Northamptonshire

Photo of All Saints' Church, Earls Barton, a church in Northamptonshire, central England.

All Saints' Church, Earls Barton

Church near Earls Barton

A celebrated late-Saxon turriform tower of about 970, richly patterned with pilaster strips and blind arcading.

6.7 km SW

Sywell Country Park

Country park near Earls Barton

A country park in Northamptonshire.

7.3 km W

Photo of Castle Ashby, a village in Northamptonshire, central England.

Castle Ashby

Village

Model estate village of golden ironstone serving Castle Ashby House, with a green, an Anglo-Saxon-rooted church and gardens open all year.

10 km SW · Northamptonshire

Everything else within 10 km (18) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.