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| Great Oakley | |
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 Great Oakley Hall and St Michael's Church | |
.svg)  Great Oakley Location within Northamptonshire | |
| Population | 2,248 (Ward. 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SP871857 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Corby |
| Postcode district | NN18 |
| Dialling code | 01536 |
| Police | Northamptonshire |
| Fire | Northamptonshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Great Oakley is an outer suburb of Corby, in the civil parish of Corby, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is situated approximately two miles south west of the town centre and five miles from Kettering. It was represented on Corby Borough Council by one councillor.[1] The population of the Great Oakley Ward of Corby Borough Council at the 2011 Census was 2,248.[2]
Great (and Little) Oakley lie in the upper reaches of the Harpers Brook on a narrow strip of limestone, sandstone and clay where the valley has cut down through the extensive boulder clay capped plateau. This permeable geology presumably provided a narrow strip of open pasture, the oak ley, along the valley within a broad tract of woodland on the boulder clay either side. The townships extended across the boulder clay to tributaries of the Harpers Brook on the south and of the Willow Brook on the north west, where it abutted extensive woodland which lay in the forest.
- ^ Corby Borough Council: Great Oakley Ward Archived 10 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 10 November 2009
- ^ "Corby ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 July 2016.