Castle Ashby

Castle Ashby
South elevation of Castle Ashby house
File:Northamptonshire UK location map.svg Castle Ashby  Castle Ashby shown within Northamptonshire
Population	111 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	SP8659
– London	65 miles (105 km)
Civil parish	Castle Ashby
District	South Northamptonshire
Shire county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Northampton
Postcode district	NN7
Dialling code	01604
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Northampton South
List of places UK England Northamptonshire

Castle Ashby is the name of a civil parish, an estate village and an English country house in rural Northamptonshire. Historically the village was set up to service the needs of Castle Ashby House, the seat of the Marquess of Northampton. The village has one small pub-hotel, The Falcon. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 111 people. The village contains many houses rebuilt from the 1860s onwards. These include work by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, whose work can also be seen nearby at Horton Church. The castle is the result of a license obtained in 1306, for Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry, to castellate his mansion in the village of Ashby.

See also

• Castle Ashby House
• Compton Wynyates

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Castle Ashby Cricket Club
• 1999 Oil Painting of Castle Ashby
• Castle Ashby Gardens website

• Office for National Statistics: Castle Ashby CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 16 July 2015