Upper Catesby

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Upper Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Daventry. The hamlet is about Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level, at the top of a northwest-facing escarpment.[1] The population is included in the civil parish of Hellidon.

Archaeology

In 1895 during the sinking of a shaft for Catesby Tunnel a Roman cinerary urn was found about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Upper Catesby.[1]

Village

The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Katr/Kati'.[2]

In 1389 Upper Catesby was recorded as Overcatsby.[1] It is a shrunken village.[1] The modern hamlet has only a handful of 19th- and 20th-century houses, but is surrounded by numerous earthen features showing where cottages and the main village street had been.[1] Most of the fields around the former village still have clear ridge and furrow marks[1] from the ploughing of the medieval arable farming with an open field system divided into narrow strips.

Catesby House

Catesby House is a Jacobethan country house about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Upper Catesby. It was built in 1863 and enlarged in 1894.Template:Sfn[3] It includes 16th-century linenfold panelling said to come from Catesby Priory,Template:Sfn and 17th-century panelling,Template:Sfn doorcases and a stair with barley-sugar balusters,Template:Sfn all from the previous 17th-century Catesby House[3] that was in Lower Catesby.

Catesby Tunnel

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Catesby Tunnel north portal, just northwest of Upper Catesby

Catesby Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel on the route of the former Great Central Main Line. It passes about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Upper Catesby and about Script error: No such module "convert". east of Catesby House. The tunnel's north portal is about Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of the hamlet, and its south portal is about Script error: No such module "convert". north of Charwelton, just inside the southern boundary of Catesby parish.

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