Official Name: | Catesby |
Static Image Name: | Charwelton-Catesby Tunnel - geograph.org.uk - 924136.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | One of Catesby Tunnel's ventilation shafts |
Coordinates: | 52.2302°N -1.2319°W |
Os Grid Reference: | SP5259 |
Label Position: | bottom |
Population: | 76 |
Population Ref: | (2001 Census)[1] |
Civil Parish: | Catesby |
Shire District: | West Northamptonshire |
Shire County: | Northamptonshire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | Daventry |
Post Town: | Daventry |
Postcode District: | NN11 |
Postcode Area: | NN |
Dial Code: | 01327 |
Website: | Catesby (Parish Meeting) |
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.