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Kettering

Kettering is a market and industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England.

Kettering
Kettering · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Kettering is a market and industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England. It lies 45 miles (72 km) west of Cambridge, 31 miles (50 km) south-west of Peterborough, 28 miles (45 km) south-east of Leicester and 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Northampton; it is west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place of Ketter's people ".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Rushton Triangular Lodge

    Rushton, NN14 1RP (5 miles north-west of Kettering),.

  2. 02
    St Peter and St Paul's Church

    Church of England parish church dating from the 15th century, or possibly earlier.

From Wikivoyage: Kettering, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Wicksteed Park
  2. 02
    Manor House Museum

    Sheep St, NN16 0AN, museumandgallery@kettering.gov.uk.

From Wikivoyage: Kettering, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

There is also food round wicksteed park however, people mainly take their own food with them which they had as a picnic at the park. eventually food is always around for sale.

  1. 01
    The Earl of Dalkeith

    Wetherspoon pub with food.

From Wikivoyage: Kettering, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kettering

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 63 km · East Midlands (EMA), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 70 km
  • Luton, Luton → Kettering
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kettering
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kettering
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kettering

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 Kettering. 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

    194 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    303 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    457 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    492 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kettering

Kettering is 39 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.