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.

Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin) are great places to visit near Catesby if you like ruins.

There are a number of villages near Catesby including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

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

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

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

There are a number of hiking areas near Catesby including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

The area around Catesby boasts some of the best historic buildings including Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton).

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

Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park are great places to visit near Catesby if you like country parks.

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 one of Catesby's best, nearby bluebell woods to visit in Catesby.

Northampton Marina is a great place to visit close to Catesby if you like rivers and streams.

There are a number of gardens near to Catesby including Cottesbrooke Hall.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Catesby include Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

Summer Leys Nature Reserve, Stanwick Lakes, and Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve are great places to visit near Catesby if you like nature reserves.

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