Heart of the Shires – A5, 3 miles away: Free parking. A collection of village shops in converted barns offering kitchenware, clothing, interior design, art gallery, cards and gifts, footwear, sweets and chutneys etc etc.
Duston – 5 miles away: Street parking only. Florists, bakery, shoe repairs/key cutting. Co-op store.
Limehurst Square: Library, butcher, Lidl, Tesco express, pet shop, charity shop, take-aways.
Harlestone – 5 miles away: Harlestone Heath Garden Centre – Free parking. Cafe, pet shop, fashion, stationery shop, card shop plus all gardening centre products. Small Waitrose.
Long Buckby – 5 miles away: Free car parking. Co-op, Costcutter, jewellers, pharmacy, hair dressers. Post office, butchers, farm shop, gift shops, estate agent, train station (London to Birmingham).
Sixfields – 6 miles away: Free car parking. Sainsbury’s including Argos and petrol station, Lidl, Aldi, Boots, Mamas & Papas, Holiday Hypermarket, Next, multi-plex cinema. Cobblers’ stadium, ten-pin bowling, recyling centre, variety of restaurants and takeaways; Just down the road – Matalan, Hobbycraft and the Saints’ rugby stadium
Whilton Locks – 6 miles away: Free car parking. Garden Centre & Pet shop, carpet shop. Farm shop.
Daventry – 7 miles away: Free car parking. Waitrose, Tesco and a wide selection of various fashion retail and gift shops, hairdressers. Post office, banks and building societies. Multiplex Cinema. Market every Tuesdays and Fridays.
Wl market: Tues 8.45-11am, United Reform Church, selling homemade foods, crafts, plants etc.
Northampton Town Centre – 8 miles away: Paid car parking. 2 shopping malls (Grosvenor and Market Walk); pedestrianised zones (Abington Street), good selection of High Street names and speciality shops, solicitors and accountants, all major banks and building societies, library, estate agents.
Theatres: The Royal, The Derngate, and the Northampton Filmhouse (theatre-style cinema showing a range of films and “first night” West End productions.
Bicester Village, Oxfordshire – 38 miles away: Designer outlet shopping centre with approximately 130 stores, offering a wide range of luxury product categories at outlet store prices; and a variety of cafes and restaurants.
Milton Keynes – 25 miles away: Paid car parking. J14 of the Ml or A5 via Towcester. Over 240 stores, restaurants and cafes in the mall (John Lewis, M&S, House of Fraser etc), SnowDome, multi-plex cinema, theatre.
Fosse Park, Leicester-40 minutes: Free car parking. J21 of the Ml (M69 intersection). 30 stores including a large M&S.
Kingsthorpe – 7 miles away: Free Parking – Waitrose, Asda, Pet Shop, Chemist etc.
Weedon: Antique Shops, Petrol Station, Tesco Express etc.
Towcester: Bell Plantation Garden Centre – Free Parking – NN12 6GX – Telephone: 01327 354126
Brackley: Free parking – Brackley Antique Cellar, Draymans Walk, NN13 6BE. Telephone: 01280 841841
Rushden Lakes – 25 miles away: Free Parking – pedestrian zone – Numerous stores and restaurants.
