Wakerley's a linear village and civil parish in the English county of Northamptonshire. Forming part of the district of East Northamptonshire Wakerley's close to, and south of, the River Welland that thereabouts's the boundary with Rutland; its nearest neighbour, Barrowden, being in that county and accessible by a footbridge. Wakerley's in the area of Rockingham Forest and Wakerley Great Wood's one of the forest's largest remnants. Recent evidence points to Wakerley's industrial history as an i… (More on Wakerley)