Catesby is a Town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Catesby

There are great places to visit near Catesby including some great ruins, villages, castles, towns, woodlands, hiking areas, historic buildings, parks, country parks, lakes, bluebell woods, rivers and streams, gardens, disused railway lines, nature reserves, historic monuments and museums.

Ruins to visit near Catesby include Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

Villages to visit near Catesby include Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Don't miss Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle's castles if visiting the area around Catesby.

Towns to visit near Catesby include Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

Don't miss Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden's woodlands if visiting the area around Catesby.

Don't miss Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton's hiking areas if visiting the area around Catesby.

Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton) are great places to visit near Catesby if you like historic buildings.

Don't miss Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park's parks if visiting the area around Catesby.

There are a several good country parks in the Catesby area like Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

There are a number of lakes near Catesby including Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir.

Coton Manor Garden is a great place to visit close to Catesby if you like bluebell woods.

Places near Catesby feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including Northampton Marina.

The area around Catesby's best gardens can be found at Cottesbrooke Hall.

Brampton Valley Way at Northampton is one of Catesby's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Catesby.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are some of Catesby best nature reserves to visit near Catesby.

Wellingborough War Memorial is one of Catesby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Catesby.

There are a several good museums in the area around Catesby like Rushden Museum.

Catesby History

There are some historic monuments around Catesby:

• Preston Capes motte and bailey castle
• Roman villa
• Charwelton Bridge
• Byfield market cross
• Borough Hill: two Iron Age hillforts and a defended enclosure, two Bronze Age barrows, a Roman building complex and barrow cemetery
• Medieval village of Fawcliff, Braunston Cleves
• Medieval settlement immediately north and 170m south of St John the Baptist's Church, Lower Shuckburgh
• Canons Ashby: the remains of a medieval monastery, castle, settlement and fields, post-medieval houses, gardens and park, and a series of five dams
• Dower House, Fawsley Park
• Upper Shuckburgh medieval settlement to the south and east of Shuckburgh Park
• Moated site S of Manor Farm House
• Braunstonbury deserted medieval village, moat and fishpond
• Medieval settlement of Ashby St Ledgers
• Arbury Banks
• Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow
• Medieval settlement at Wolfhampcote
• Medieval settlement of Priors Hardwick
• Market cross 45m north of church
• 'Burnt Walls' earthworks
• Remains of a moated monastic retreat house, manorial courthouse and inn
• Medieval settlement remains at Flecknoe