Catesby, Northamptonshire

Catesby
One of Catesby Tunnel's ventilation shafts
Catesby is located in Northamptonshire
Catesby
Catesby
Location within Northamptonshire
Population76 (2001 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP5259
Civil parish
  • Catesby
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDaventry
Postcode districtNN11
Dialling code01327
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
WebsiteCatesby (Parish Meeting)
List of places
UK
England
Northamptonshire
52°13′49″N 1°13′55″W / 52.2302°N 1.2319°W / 52.2302; -1.2319

Catesby is a civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. There are two hamlets, Lower Catesby and Upper Catesby, each of which is a shrunken village. The site of the abandoned village of Newbold is also in the parish. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 76.[1]

Catesby Priory was a community of Cistercian nuns in Lower Catesby, founded in about 1175 and suppressed in 1536. In the eastern part of the parish is Catesby Tunnel, a tunnel on the former Great Central Line that was completed in 1897 and has been disused since 1966.

  1. ^ a b "Area selected: Daventry (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2013.