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, nature reserves, historic monuments and museums.

Don't miss Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin)'s ruins if visiting the area around Catesby.

Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton are great places to visit near Catesby if you like villages.

The area around Catesby's best castles can be found at Lilbourne Castle.

Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston are some of Catesby best towns to visit near Catesby.

Catesby has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Cotton Manor Garden.

Hiking Areas to visit near Catesby include Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Ravensthorpe Reservoir.

There are a number of historic buildings near Catesby including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

There are a number of parks near Catesby including Deene Park, Abington Park, Cotton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

There are a number of country parks near Catesby including Sywell Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park.

Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir are some of Catesby best lakes to visit near Catesby.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Catesby include Cotton Manor Garden.

The area around Catesby's best rivers and streams can be found at Northampton Marina.

The area close to Catesby boasts some of the best gardens including Cottesbrooke Hall.

There are a several good nature reserves in the Catesby area like Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve.

The area around Catesby's best historic monuments can be found at Wellingborough War Memorial.

Museums to visit near Catesby include Rushden Museum.

Catesby History

There are some historic monuments around Catesby:

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