King's Wood is a 31.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Corby in Northamptonshire. It managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. It is a remnant of the former royal hunting forest, Rockingham Forest. More than 250 plant species have been recorded, including ones characteristic of ancient woods including yellow archangel and wood anemone.
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Kingswood Secondary Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. It is sponsored by the Greenwood Academies Trust.
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Great Oakley Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Great Oakley, Northamptonshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1960, when the ground held Northamptonshire Second XI played the Surrey Second XI in the Second XI Championship. The ground has played host to a total of 14 Second XI fixtures involving the Northamptonshire Second XI.
In 1990, the ground held a single Women's One Day International between England women and Ireland women.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Great Oakley Cricket Club.
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Stoke Wood End Quarter is a 0.7-hectare nature reserve west of Corby in Northamptonshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, and is part of the Stoke and Bowd Lane Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The main trees in this wood are oak, ash, hazel and blackthorn. There are flowers such as early purple orchid and twayblade, birds including treecreepers and tawny owls, while comma and small tortoiseshell butterflies feed in open glades in summer.
Stoke Wood is divided into three areas. The eastern half is managed by the Woodland Trust and the western area is privately owned. The End Quarter is a small triangular area which stretches south from the middle. There is access to the Wildlife Trust site by a footpath from the B669, Desborough Road and then through the Woodland Trust area.
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Oakley Vale is a 436-acre housing development situated in the south west of Corby, England. The development began in 2001, and over 2000 houses have now been built. The adjacent area of Snatchill, developed from around the mid-1990s, is often regarded as being within the Oakley Vale development boundary.
Oakley Vale contains a mix of housing types ranging from small apartments to large five or six bedroomed family homes. The cost of housing at levels lower than the UK average and the proximity to the East Midlands main line have attracted homebuyers from more expensive surrounding areas and even as far afield as London.
Local services in Oakley Vale includes a parade of shops at Charter Court on Butland Road. Oakley Vale Primary school was opened in 2008 and Brooke Weston Academy is located in the Oakley Vale development.
Located in the south west of Corby, Oakley vale is within a few miles of the A14 road and just 23 miles of the UK motorway network via the M1 motorway and the M6 motorway The development is 2 miles from Corby railway station providing fast links to London St Pancras station.
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Brooke Weston Academy is an Academy in Corby, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, teaching pupils from ages 11 to 18. It has consistently placed very highly in GCSE league tables and has an above average value added score at Key Stage 4. The value added score for Key Stage 5 is below average nationally, but slightly higher than the Northamptonshire average. Attainment on entry is well above average and the proportions of pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities or eligible for free school meals are much lower than average.
There are diverse invertebrates such as green-veined white butterflies and common blue damselflies, and birds include treecreepers, long-tailed tits, green woodpeckers and tawny owls. Access points include one at the junction of Danesholme Road and Gainsborough Road.
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