Billing Aquadrome is a
leisure park
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in
Great Billing
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, a district of eastern
Northampton
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,
England
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. Facilities within the park, which was built around various mature
gravel pit
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s, include a
caravan
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site,
marina
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and
funfair
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. It is also frequently home to a wide variety of shows throughout the year, including music events and car shows such as Vauxfest.
At the edge of the park is Billing Mill, a family pub, which is housed in a converted water-mill.
Railway
The aquadrome has had a variety of railway attractions over its lifetime. In April 1949, a new
miniature railway
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was opened, featuring a model of a
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* Royal Scots (Jacobite), a regiment of Scottish exiles in French service, in existence from 1744 to 1762
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locomotive.
References
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Sports venues in Northampton
Tourist attractions in Northamptonshire
Parks and open spaces in Northamptonshire
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