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Great Oakley

Great Oakley is an outer suburb of Corby, in the civil parish of Corby, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.

The place

Great Oakley is an outer suburb of Corby, in the civil parish of Corby, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is situated approximately two miles south west of the town centre and five miles from Kettering. It was represented on Corby Borough Council by one councillor. The population of the Great Oakley Ward of Corby Borough Council at the 2011 Census was 2,248.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Oakley

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St Mary Magdalen

    St Mary Magdalene is a Church of England church in Geddington, Northamptonshire, England. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Geddington, North Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pipewell Hall And Wall Attached To Right

    Pipewell Hall in Northamptonshire, England, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built near the ruins of a Cistercian abbey in 1675.

    3.3 km · building in Wilbarston, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alder Wood and Meadow

    Alder Wood and Meadow is a 13.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Corby in Northamptonshire. The semi-natural ancient broadleaved woodland is a surviving fragment of the Royal Forest of Rockingham.

    3.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Geddington Chase SSSI

    An area of 39.1 hectares in the north-west corner of Geddington Chase has been designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is located south-east of Corby in Northamptonshire.

    3.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Oakley

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 70 km · Birmingham (BHX), 70 km
Stations
Corby railway station, 3.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Oakley
    197 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · £23–31
  • Luton, Luton → Great Oakley
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Oakley
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £25–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Oakley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Oakley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    201 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    451 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    486 km

If you know how people move in Great Oakley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Great Oakley

Great Oakley is 34 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Corbytown and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England3.5 km
  • Geddingtonvillage in Northampton, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Little Stanionvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK3.6 km
  • Newtonvillage in Northamptonshire, UK2.5 km
  • Pipewellvillage in Northamptonshire, UK3.2 km
  • Little Oakleyvillage in Northamptonshire, UK2.4 km