Old Head Wood

Old Head Wood is a forest in North Northamptonshire, England. Old Head Wood is situated nearby to the village Grafton Underwood, as well as near Geddington.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary Magdalene, Geddington and Montagu Hospital.

St Mary Magdalene, Geddington

Church

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Mary Magdalene is a Church of England church in Geddington, Northamptonshire, England. It is a grade I listed building. In 2017 it was wrongly thought to be the Shrine of Hagius until the belief was found to be based on an error in transcription.

Montagu Hospital

Historic building

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Montagu Hospital is a historic building.

Church of St Mary, Weekley

Church

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kettering and Geddington.

Kettering

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kettering is a town of 60,749 people in north Northamptonshire. Kettering owes much of its heritage and growth to the arrival of the railway during the mid-1800s.

Geddington

Village

Photo: Lofty, CC BY 2.5.

Geddington is a village and civil parish on the A4300, previously A43, in North Northamptonshire between Kettering and Corby. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,503, virtually unchanged from 1,504 at the 2001 census.

Newton

Village

Photo: John Stolarski, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newton, sometimes called Newton in the Willows, is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton and Little Oakley, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.

Old Head Wood

Type: Forest
Location: North Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.4301° or 52° 25′ 48″ north

Longitude

-0.6495° or 0° 38′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C4XC9J2+25

OpenStreetMap ID

way 28204815

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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