Catesby, Northamptonshire

Catesby
Catesby
	One of Catesby Tunnel's ventilation shafts
	Catesby Location within Northamptonshire
Population	76 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SP5259
Civil parish	Catesby;
District	West Northamptonshire;
Shire county	Northamptonshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Daventry
Postcode district	NN11
Dialling code	01327
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Daventry;
Website	Catesby (Parish Meeting)
	List of places UK England Northamptonshire 52°13′49″N 1°13′55″W / 52.2302°N 1.2319°W

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.

References

^ ^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.

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

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