Upper Catesby
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Upper Catesby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Catesby, Northamptonshire, about Template:Convert southwest of Daventry. The hamlet is about Template:Convert above sea level, at the top of a northwest-facing escarpment.<ref name=RCHME>Template:Harvnb</ref> The population is included in the civil parish of Hellidon.
ArchaeologyEdit
In 1895 during the sinking of a shaft for Catesby Tunnel a Roman cinerary urn was found about Template:Convert south of Upper Catesby.<ref name=RCHME/>
VillageEdit
The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Katr/Kati'.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1389 Upper Catesby was recorded as Overcatsby.<ref name=RCHME/> It is a shrunken village.<ref name=RCHME/> 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.<ref name=RCHME/> Most of the fields around the former village still have clear ridge and furrow marks<ref name=RCHME/> from the ploughing of the medieval arable farming with an open field system divided into narrow strips.
Catesby HouseEdit
Catesby House is a Jacobethan country house about Template:Convert west of Upper Catesby. It was built in 1863 and enlarged in 1894.Template:Sfn<ref name=EH>Template:NHLE</ref> 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<ref name=EH/> that was in Lower Catesby.
Catesby TunnelEdit
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Catesby Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel on the route of the former Great Central Main Line. It passes about Template:Convert west of Upper Catesby and about Template:Convert east of Catesby House. The tunnel's north portal is about Template:Convert northwest of the hamlet, and its south portal is about Template:Convert north of Charwelton, just inside the southern boundary of Catesby parish.
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