Castle Ashby

Castle Ashby
South elevation of Castle Ashby house
Castle Ashby is located in Northamptonshire
Castle Ashby
Castle Ashby
Location within Northamptonshire
Population111 (2011 Census)
OS grid referenceSP8659
• London65 miles (105 km) SSE
Civil parish
  • Castle Ashby
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNORTHAMPTON
Postcode districtNN7
Dialling code01604
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
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England
Northamptonshire
52°13′38″N 0°44′30″W / 52.2271°N 0.7417°W / 52.2271; -0.7417

Castle Ashby is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish (including Chadstone) was 111.[1]

Historically, the village was set up to service the needs of Castle Ashby House, the seat of the Marquess of Northampton. The village has one small pub-hotel, The Falcon. The village contains many houses rebuilt from the 1860s onwards. These include work by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, whose work can also be seen nearby at Horton Church. The castle is the result of a licence obtained in 1306, for Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry, to castellate his mansion in the village of Ashby.

The Falcon Hotel

The village's name means 'Ash-tree farm/settlement'. There was a castle here, later replaced by the Elizabethan mansion.[2]

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Castle Ashby CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 16 July 2015
  2. ^ "Key to English Place-names".