Population 76 (2001 Census) Civil parish Catesby Country England Local time Monday 5:03 PM District Daventry District UK parliament constituency Daventry | OS grid reference SP5259 Region East Midlands Sovereign state United Kingdom Shire county Northamptonshire Dialling code 01327 | |
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Catesby is a civil parish in the Daventry district of 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.
Map of Catesby, Daventry, UK
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.
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Catesby, Northamptonshire Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA