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.

Catesby has some unmissable ruins nearby like Lyveden New Bield, and Overstone Hall (ruin).

The area around Catesby boasts some of the best villages including Lilbourne, Aldwincle, Harringworth, Gretton, Great Brington, Ravensthorpe, and Earls Barton.

Catesby has some unmissable castles nearby like Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

The area around Catesby features a number of interesting towns including Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

There are a several good woodlands in the Catesby area like Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

Catesby's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, and Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

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.

The area around Catesby boasts some of the best parks including Deene Park, Abington Park, Coton Manor Garden, and Higham Ferrers Riverside Park.

Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park are some of Catesby best country parks to visit near Catesby.

Catesby has some unmissable lakes nearby like 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.

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Catesby including Northampton Marina.

Cottesbrooke Hall is a great place to visit close to Catesby if you like gardens.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Catesby like Brampton Valley Way at Northampton.

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.

Don't miss Rushden Museum's museums if visiting the area around Catesby.

Catesby History

There are some historic monuments around Catesby:

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