Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire

Description
Castle-Ashby, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, 2 miles S from Castle-Ashby and Earl's Barton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8 E by S from Northampton, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. It includes the hamlet of Chadstone. Area of the parish, 1978 acres; population, 199. The Castle is a seat of the Comptons, Marquises of Northampton. It is a princely mansion, begun in 1583 and completed in 1624, very beautifully situated in park lands comprising 645 acres, and surrounded by terraces, gardens, and pleasure grounds. The Marquess of Northampton is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, about £275 with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Northampton. The church, an edifice of stone chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, has some very interesting brasses, effigies, and monuments.