Hotels in Fotheringhay

With no hotel of its own, Fotheringhay is best used as a day-trip destination from a base nearby, though the Falcon Inn does have a small number of rooms for those who want to wake up beside the church and castle field. Most visitors choose to stay in Oundle, a few miles south, where a good selection of small hotels, inns and guesthouses sit within an attractive stone market town, or in Peterborough, which offers a wider range of budget and business hotels close to the East Coast Main Line station for onward travel. Both options put Fotheringhay within a short and easy drive, so it is entirely possible to combine a night away with an unhurried morning exploring the village, the castle site and the river before moving on. Guesthouses and farmhouse B&Bs are scattered through the surrounding Nene valley villages too, appealing to those who want a quieter, more rural stay with easy access to walking routes along the river. Booking ahead is advisable for anything close to the village itself, since options are genuinely limited, but the wider area around Oundle and Peterborough has plenty of capacity even at short notice. Anyone touring the East Midlands or East Anglia border country will find Fotheringhay works well as one stop among several, rather than a week-long base, given its size.