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It covers the Great Billing, Little Billing, Ecton Brook and Bellinge areas. It is geographically the largest area of Northampton. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 8,642, decreasing at the 2011 census to 8,457. [1] Billing consists of four estates, with each estate constituting a ward of the parish.
Billing Aquadrome is a leisure park in Great Billing, a district of eastern Northampton, England. [1] Facilities within the 235-acre (1 km 2) park, which was built around various mature gravel pits, include a caravan site, marina and funfair. It is also frequently home to a wide variety of shows throughout the year, including music events and ...
Billing Hall was a manor house in Billing, Northamptonshire, England. Records of the manor, the predecessor to Great Billing Hall, date back to the 12th century. It was originally owned by the Barry family and Baron Dundalk built it in 1629. It became the county seat of the Earls of Thomond, descendants of Brian Boru, King of Ireland in 1002.
Dallington is an area and former civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of the centre of Northampton, now in the parish of Northampton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. Dallington was formerly a separate village.
Billing railway station is a former railway station in Northamptonshire on the former Northampton and Peterborough Railway which connected Peterborough and Northampton. [3] In 1846 the line, along with the London and Birmingham, became part of the London and North Western Railway .
The park contains the ruins of the former village of Abington, the site of a medieval manor house with a mill attached, mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. The Abington gallows used for the five hangings in 1612 following the Northamptonshire witch trials , amongst the first in England to use trial by ducking stool , are believed to have ...
Upton is a civil parish north-east of Kislingbury and south-west of Dallington, in Northamptonshire, England about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of Northampton town centre along the A4500 road. Formerly a scattered hamlet, it is now part of the town. The area west of Northampton is now a major area of expansion of the town and named Upton after the parish.
Little Houghton is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, located about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Northampton. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 367 people, [2] increasing to 412 at the 2011 census. [3] The villages name means 'hill-spur farm/settlement'. [4]