Upper Catesby is a Village in the county of Northamptonshire.

Retail in Upper Catesby

There are great places to visit near Upper 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.

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

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

There are a number of castles near Upper Catesby including Lilbourne Castle, and Rockingham Castle.

The area around Upper Catesby boasts some of the best towns including Kettering, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Corby, Northampton, Kingsthorpe, and Duston.

The area around Upper Catesby features a number of interesting woodlands including Fineshade Wood, Salcey Forest, and Coton Manor Garden.

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

Don't miss Deene Park, Kirby Hall, Welland Viaduct, Delapre Abbey, The Guildhall, National Lift Tower, and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Northampton)'s historic buildings if visiting the area around Upper Catesby.

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

Don't miss Sywell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park, Stanwick Lakes, and Irchester Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Upper Catesby.

Sywell Reservoir, Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Sixfields Reservoir, Pitsford Water, Stanwick Lakes, and Boddington Reservoir are great places to visit near Upper Catesby if you like lakes.

Coton Manor Garden is one of Upper Catesby's best, nearby bluebell woods to visit in Upper Catesby.

Don't miss Northampton Marina's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Upper Catesby.

There are a several good gardens in the area around Upper Catesby like Cottesbrooke Hall.

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

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

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Upper Catesby like Wellingborough War Memorial.

Museums to visit near Upper Catesby include Rushden Museum.

Upper Catesby History

There are some historic monuments around Upper Catesby:

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