This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. There are 275 civil parishes.
Population figures are not available for some of the smallest parishes & those created after 2011.
Figures for population & area (in hectares) are from the 2011 census.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan="2" |Name
! rowspan="2" |Created
! rowspan="2" |Pop'n
! rowspan="2" |Area
! colspan="3" |District
|-
!Pre-1974
!1974-2021
!Current
|-
| Abthorpe
|1737
|311
|797.38
|Towcester RD
|South
|West
|-
| Adstone
|1866
|
|
|Towcester RD
|2004
|
|
|Towcester RD
|322
|1167.09
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|East
|North
|-
| Althorp
|1858
|
|
|Brixworth RD
|Daventry
|West
|-
| Apethorpe
|Ancient
|160
|721.61
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|710.33
|Brixworth RD
|782.20
|Daventry RD
|Daventry
|West
|-
| Ashley
|Ancient
|224
|497.73
|Kettering RD
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Ashton (North)
|1866
|395
|550.46
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|748.71
|Northampton RD
|South
|West
|-
| Aston le Walls
|Ancient
|293
|633.85
|Brackley RD
|South
|West
|-
| Aynho
|Ancient
|651
|1033.61
|Brackley RD
|820.41
|Daventry RD
|1402.79
|Daventry RD
|1402.58
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|202.79
|Kettering MB
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Benefield
|Ancient
|339
|2290.13
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|225.94
|Northampton RD
|967.47
|Towcester RD
|761.15
|Towcester RD
|1271.05
|Brackley RD
|553.39
|Brixworth RD
|1781.32
|Wellingborough RD
|Wellingborough
|North
|-
| Brackley (town)
|1884
|13,018
|687.67
|Brackley MB
|South
|West
|-
| Bradden
|Ancient
|149
|418.25
|Towcester RD
|515.72
|Northampton RD
|1318.26
|Daventry RD
|1172.11
|Kettering RD
|2487.35
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1567.49
|Brixworth RD
|1157.86
|Brixworth RD
|707.12
|Kettering RD
|906.40
|Northampton RD
|932.70
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1126.77
|Burton Latimer UD
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Byfield
|Ancient
|1,277
|1116.03
|Daventry RD
|802.31
|Northampton RD
|698.50
|Brackley RD
|1716.71
|Daventry RD
|1209.90
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|2008
|537
|978.19
|Brackley RD
|2009
|808
|982.40
|Brixworth RD
|2616.19
|Daventry RD
|1171.63
|Brixworth RD
|652.29
|Northampton RD
|872.24
|Brixworth RD
|699.47
|Towcester RD
|129.59
|Northampton RD
|634.89
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|2021
|
|
|Corby UD
|Corby
|North
|-
| Cosgrove
|Ancient
|521
|688.50
|Towcester RD
|286.16
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1141.62
|Brixworth RD
|511.41
|Kettering RD
|818.69
|Northampton RD
|1283.84
|Kettering RD
|660.36
|Kettering RD
|530.67
|Brixworth RD
|2199.25
|Daventry RD
|873.22
|Brackley RD
|927.98
|Brackley RD
|1469.47
|Daventry MB
|Daventry
|West
|-
| Deanshanger
|Ancient
|3,817
|953.99
|Towcester RD
|1283.07
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|709.76
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|629.34
|Northampton RD
|967.53
|Desborough
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Dingley
|Ancient
|194
|625.90
|Kettering RD
|586.52
|Daventry RD
|1662.24
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|373.95
|Northampton CB
|Northampton
|West
|-
| Earls Barton
|Ancient
|5,387
|932.77
|Wellingborough RD
|657.80
|Kettering RD
|576.98
|Brixworth RD
|257.20
|Brixworth RD
|2013
|1355.47
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|881.59
|Wellingborough RD
|1278.67
|Brackley RD
|1034.71
|Daventry RD
|676.74
|Brackley RD
|2020
|
|
|
|Northampton
|West
|-
| Farthinghoe
|Ancient
|413
|1088.67
|Brackley RD
|728.52
|Daventry RD
|1481.76
|Wellingborough UD
|Wellingborough
|North
|-
| Flore
|Ancient
|1,194
|1091.56
|Daventry RD
|866.39
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|702.70
|Towcester RD
|954.63
|Kettering RD
|598.17
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|929.25
|Towcester RD
|737.32
|Kettering RD
|218.12
|Northampton RD
|509.94
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|611.27
|Wellingborough RD
|949.96
|Wellingborough RD
|366.22
|Northampton RD
|753.83
|Brixworth RD
|Ancient
|890
|1597.65
|Brackley RD
|954.08
|Towcester RD
|697.90
|Wellingborough RD
|1531.78
|Kettering RD
|909.27
|Brixworth RD
|2632.15
|Northampton RD
|502.55
|Brixworth RD
|540.34
|Northampton RD
|577.55
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|2020
|
|
|Brixworth RD
|1125.26
|Brixworth RD
|832.77
|Northampton RD
|1100.68
|Kettering RD
|1395.14
|Kettering RD
|905.18
|Northampton RD
|1488.53
|Daventry RD
|1555.20
|Brackley RD
|1434.93
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|854.76
|Higham Ferrers MB
|East
|North
|-
| Hinton-in-the-Hedges
|Ancient
|167
|604.86
|Brackley RD
|529.38
|Brixworth RD
|1612.19
|Brixworth RD
|385
|706.05
|Brixworth RD
|1128.22
|Wellingborough RD
|1178.61
|Irthlingborough UD
|East
|North
|-
| Isham
|Ancient
|771
|568.17
|Wellingborough RD
|561.67
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1827.15
|Brixworth RD
|2021
|
|
|
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Kilsby
|Ancient
|1,196
|1041.52
|Daventry RD
|1517.07
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1664.56
|Brackley RD
|2020
|
|
|
|Northampton
|West
|-
| Kislingbury
|Ancient
|1,237
|561.93
|Northampton RD
|1861.15
|Brixworth RD
|1366.58
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|146.49
|Daventry RD
|708.39
|Towcester RD
|460.24
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|636.18
|Wellingborough RD
|983.80
|Northampton RD
|2018
|
|
|
|Corby
|North
|-
| Loddington
|Ancient
|520
|1074.43
|Kettering RD
|1646.46
|Daventry RD
|1158.49
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|568.15
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|439.13
|Towcester RD
|1327.36
|Brixworth RD
|606.25
|Brackley RD
|1082.35
|Brixworth RD
|2004
|2,320
|191.57
|Kettering RD
|674.45
|Wellingborough RD
|796.12
|Brackley RD
|697.55
|Kettering RD
|301.20
|Northampton RD
|986.23
|Brackley RD
|1027.63
|Brixworth RD
|1382.54
|Brixworth RD
|1015.92
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|849.45
|Northampton RD
|883.01
|Brackley RD
|782.77
|Daventry RD
|1038.74
|Kettering RD
|2020
|
|
|
|Northampton
|West
|-
| Norton
|Ancient
|434
|1612.25
|Daventry RD
|434.32
|Towcester RD
|829.91
|Brixworth RD
|785.88
|Wellingborough RD
|901.03
|Oundle UD
|East
|North
|-
| Overstone
|Ancient
|741
|644.24
|Brixworth RD
|679.01
|Brackley RD
|1087.22
|Towcester RD
|1227.60
|Towcester RD
|575.70
|Brixworth RD
|1087.89
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|949.69
|Towcester RD
|1869.98
|Daventry RD
|1081.06
|Kettering RD
|443.77
|Northampton RD
|1808.32
|Raunds UD
|East
|North
|-
| Ravensthorpe
|Ancient
|646
|890.39
|Brixworth RD
|815.09
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|672.27
|Northampton RD
|293.77
|Kettering RD
|418.52
|Northampton RD
|1372.17
|Rothwell UD
|Kettering
|North
|-
| Rushden (town)
|Ancient
|29,272
|1546.70
|Rushden UD
|East
|North
|-
| Rushton
|Ancient
|461
|1746.81
|Kettering RD
|495.84
|Brixworth RD
|551.43
|Towcester RD
|1466.11
|Brixworth RD
|757.32
|Towcester RD
|1809.26
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|908.47
|Brixworth RD
|666.09
|Kettering RD
|812.81
|Raunds UD
|898.74
|Daventry RD
|1545.72
|Kettering RD
|514.03
|Towcester RD
|733.21
|Daventry RD
|735.50
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|821.17
|Brackley RD
|1509.68
|Brackley RD
|879.59
|Wellingborough RD
|602.04
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|499.18
|Brixworth RD
|2191.74
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|352.47
|Kettering RD
|1391.48
|Brackley RD
|564.68
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|512.91
|Towcester RD
|1514.38
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|2178.99
|Towcester RD
|375.90
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|538.14
|Northampton RD
|1686.65
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|919.93
|Brixworth RD
|929.08
|Towcester RD
|600.71
|Kettering RD
|1591.81
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|1322.22
|Daventry RD
|816.40
|Daventry RD
|584.13
|Kettering RD
|1285.02
|Corby UD
|Corby
|North
|-
| Welford
|Ancient
|1,043
|1267.22
|Brixworth RD
|Ancient
|
|
|Wellingborough UD
|799.00
|Daventry RD
|1093.50
|Daventry RD
|1292.94
|Towcester RD
|718.69
|Kettering RD
|392.79
|Daventry RD
|932.59
|Brackley RD
|1310.45
|Towcester RD
|939.27
|Towcester RD
|1278.75
|Kettering RD
|469.14
|Wellingborough RD
|1559.74
|Wellingborough RD
|1555.80
|Towcester RD
|1130.60
|Daventry RD
|920.66
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|564.43
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|535.10
|Northampton RD
|576.83
|Towcester RD
|1693.88
|Northampton RD
|494.64
|Oundle & Thrapston RD
|936.42
|Daventry RD
|Aldwincle
|-
|Aldwincle St Peter
|Ancient
|1885
|Aston-le-Walls
|-
|Armston
|1866
|1935
|Polebrook
|-
|Astwell with Falcutt
|1866
|1935
|Helmdon
|-
|Barford
|1866
|1935
|Rushton
|-
|Barnwell All Saints
|Ancient
|1935
|Barnwell
|-
|Barnwell St Andrew
|Ancient
|1935
|Barnwell
|-
|Beanfield Lawns
|1858
|1935
|Cottingham
|-
|Blatherwycke Holy Trinity
|Ancient
|1448
|Blatherwycke
|-
|Blatherwycke St Mary Magdalene
|Ancient
|1448
|Blatherwycke
|-
|Brackley St James
|Unknown
|1884
|Brackley
|-
|Brackley St Peter
|Ancient
|1884
|Brackley
|-
|Chapel Brampton
|Unknown
|2009
|Church with Chapel Brampton
|-
|Chipping Warden
|Ancient
|2008
|Chipping Warden & Edgcote
|-
|Church Brampton
|Ancient
|2009
|Church with Chapel Brampton
|-
|Corby
|Ancient
|1974
| -
|-
|Coton
|1866
|1935
|Ravensthorpe
|-
|Cranford St Andrew
|Ancient
|1935
|Cranford
|-
|Cranford St John
|Ancient
|1935
|Cranford
|-
|Dallington
|Ancient
|1932
|Duston/Northampton
|-
|Dallington St James
|1895
|1913
|Northampton
|-
|Duddington
|Unknown
|1988
|Duddington with Fineshade
|-
|Duston St James
|1895
|1913
|Northampton
|-
|Edgcote
|Ancient
|2008
|Chipping Warden & Edgcote
|-
|Far Cotton
|1895
|1932
|Northampton
|-
|Faxton
|1866
|1935
|Lamport
|-
|Fineshade
|1858
|1988
|Duddington with Fineshade
|-
|Furtho
|Ancient
|1951
|Potterspury/Cosgrove/Old Stratford
|-
|Glendon
|Ancient
|1935
|Rushton
|-
|Great Billing
|Ancient
|1935
|Billing
|-
|Great Oakley
|Ancient
|1935
|Oakley
|-
|Great Weldon
|Ancient
|1935
|Weldon
|-
|Hanging Houghton
|1866
|1935
|Lamport
|-
|Higham Park
|1858
|1935
|Newton Bromswold
|-
|Horton
|Ancient
|1935
|Hackleton
|-
|Hothorpe
|1866
|1935
|Marston Trussell
|-
|Irthlingborough All Saints
|Ancient
|Middle Ages
|Irthlingborough
|-
|Irthlingborough St Peter
|Ancient
|Middle Ages
|Irthlingborough
|-
|Kettering
|Ancient
|1974
| -
|-
|Lands Common to Badby and Newnham
|1866
|1935
|Newnham
|-
|Little Billing
|Ancient
|1935
|Billing
|-
|Little Bowden
|Ancient
|1896
|Great Oxendon
|-
|Little Creaton
|1866
|1884
|Creaton
|-
|Little Oakley
|Ancient
|1935
|Oakley
|-
|Little Weldon
|1866
|1935
|Weldon
|-
|Lower Boddington
|Ancient
|1935
|Boddington
|-
|Moulton Park
|1858
|1932
|Northampton
|-
|Northampton All Saints
|Ancient
|1909
|Northampton
|-
|Northampton Priory of St Andrew
|1858
|1909
|Northampton
|-
|Northampton St Bartholomew
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Edmund
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Giles
|Ancient
|1909
|Northampton
|-
|Northampton St Gregory
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Margaret
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Mary
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Michael
|Ancient
|C15th/16th
|
|-
|Northampton St Peter
|Ancient
|1909
|Northampton
|-
|Northampton St Sepulchre
|Ancient
|1909
|Northampton
|-
|Oakley
|1935
|1967
|Newton
|-
|Piddington
|Unknown
|1935
|Hackleton
|-
|Plumpton
|Ancient
|1935
|Weston and Weedon
|-
|Preston Deanery
|Ancient
|1935
|Hackleton
|-
|Rushton St Peter
|Ancient
|C16th
|Rushton
|-
|Slipton
|Ancient
|1935
|Lowick
|-
|Steane
|Ancient
|1935
|Farthinghoe
|-
|Stuchbury
|Ancient
|1935
|Greatworth
|-
|Teeton
|1866
|1935
|Hollowell
|-
|Thorpe Lubenham
|1858
|1935
|Marston Trussell
|-
|Upper Boddington
|Ancient
|1935
|Boddington
|-
|Weedon Lois
|Ancient
|1935
|Weston and Weedon
|-
|Weston Favell
|Ancient
|1965
|Northampton
|-
|Whiston
|Ancient
|1935
|Cogenhoe
|}
Re-created parishes
{| class="wikitable"
!Parish
!Created
!Abolished
!Recreated
|-
|Alderton
|Ancient
|1935
|2004
|-
|Elkington
|Ancient
|C16th
|1866
|-
|Finedon
|Ancient
|1935
|1983
|-
|Kings Sutton
|Ancient
|1885
|1896
|-
|Kingsthorpe
|1850
|1913
|2020
|-
|Mawsley
|1858
|1935
|2004
|-
|Greatworth & Halse
|Greatworth
|2019
|-
|Newton & Little Oakley
|Newton
|1996
|-
|Wootton
|Wootton & East Hunsbury (1990–2013)
|1990, 2013
|}
Transferred parishes
{| class="wikitable"
!Parish
!Created
!Transferred to
|-
|Stoneton
|1858
|Warwickshire
|-
|Winwick
|Ancient
|Huntingdonshire (1888)
|}
Ancient parishes
List
Chapelries are listed in italics. Parishes are listed by hundred.
{| class="wikitable"
!Hundred
!Parishes
|-
!Chipping Warden
|Aston-le-Walls • Byfield • Chipping Warden • Edgcote • Eydon • Greatworth • Lower Boddington • Sulgrave • Upper Boddington • Woodford cum Membris
|-
!Cleley
|Alderton • Cosgrove • Easton Neston • Furtho • Grafton Regis • Passenham • Paulerspury • Potterspury • Roade (Ashton · Hartwell) • Stoke Bruerne (Shutlanger) • Wicken
|-
!Corby
|Ashley • Blatherwycke Holy Trinity • Blatherwycke St Mary Magdalene • Brampton Ash • Brigstock (Stanion) • Bulwick • Corby • Cottingham (East Carlton) • Deene • Dingley • Geddington (Newton) • Great Oakley • Great Weldon • Gretton • Harringworth • Laxton • Little Oakley • Rockingham • Stoke Albany • Wakerley • Weekley • Weston by Welland (Sutton Bassett) • Wilbarston
|-
!Fawsley
|Ashby St Ledgers • Badby (Newnham) • Barby • Braunston • Catesby (Hellidon) • Charwelton • Daventry (Welton) • Dodford • Everdon • Farthingstone • Fawsley • Kilsby • Litchborough • Norton • Preston Capes • Staverton • Stowe IX Churches • Weedon Bec
|-
!Greens Norton
|Blakesley • Bradden • Canons Ashby (Adstone) • Greens Norton (Silverstone • Whittlebury) • Maidford • Moreton Pinkney • Plumpton • Slapton • Weedon Lois
|-
!Guilsborough
|Cold Ashby • Cottesbrooke • Crick • Elkington • Great Creaton • Guilsborough • Lilbourne (Clay Coton) • Long Buckby • Naseby • Ravensthorpe • Spratton • Stanford • Thornby • Watford • Welford • West Haddon • Winwick • Yelvertoft
|-
!Hamfordshoe
|Earls Barton • Ecton • Great Doddington • Holcot • Mears Ashby • Sywell • Wellingborough • Wilby
|-
!Higham Ferrers
|Bozeat • Easton Maudit • Hargrave • Higham Ferrers (Chelveston-cum-Caldecott) • Irchester • Newton Bromswold • Raunds • Ringstead • Rushden • Stanwick • Strixton • Wollaston
|-
!Huxloe
|Aldwincle All Saints • Aldwincle St Peter • Barnwell All Saints • Barton Seagrave • Burton Latimer • Cranford St Andrew • Cranford St John • Denford • Finedon • Grafton Underwood • Great Addington • Irthlingborough All Saints • Irthlingborough St Peter • Islip • Kettering • Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe • Little Addington • Lowick • Slipton • Sudborough • Twywell • Warkton • Woodford
|-
!Kings Sutton
|Aynho • Brackley (Brackley St James) • Chalcombe • Croughton • Culworth • Evenley • Farthinghoe • Helmdon • Hinton-in-the-Hedges • Kings Sutton • Marston St Lawrence (Warkworth) • Middleton Cheney • Newbottle • Radstone • Steane • Stuchbury • Syresham • Thenford • Thorpe Mandeville • Wappenham • Whitfield
|-
!Nassaborough or Soke of Peterborough
|Barnack • Castor (Sutton • Upton) • Etton • Eye • Helpston • Marholm • Maxey • Northborough • Paston (Werrington) • Peakirk (Glinton) • Peterborough (Longthorpe) • Stamford Baron St Martin<sup>4</sup> • Thornhaugh (Wansford) • Ufford (Bainton) • Wittering
|-
!Navisford
|Clopton • Pilton • Stoke Doyle • Thorpe Achurch • Thrapston • Titchmarsh • Wadenhoe
|-
!Nobottle Grove
|Brington • Brockhall • Bugbrooke • Church Brampton (Chapel Brampton) • Dallington • Duston • East Haddon • Flore • Harlestone • Harpole • Holdenby • Kislingbury • Nether Heyford • Upper Heyford • Upton<sup>1</sup> • Whilton
|-
!Orlingbury
|Brixworth • Broughton • Cransley • Great Harrowden • Hannington • Hardwick • Isham • Lamport (Faxton) • Little Harrowden • Old • Orlingbury • Pytchley • Scaldwell • Walgrave
|-
!Polebrook
|Barnwell St Andrew • Benefield • Hemington • Luddington • Oundle • Polebrook • Warmington • Winwick<sup>3</sup>
|-
!Rothwell
|Arthingworth • Braybrooke • Clipston • Desborough • Draughton • East Farndon • Glendon • Great Oxendon • Harrington • Haselbech • Little Bowden<sup>2</sup> • Loddington • Maidwell (Kelmarsh) • Marston Trussell • Rothwell (Orton) • Rushton (Barford • Rushton St Peter) • Sibbertoft • Sulby • Thorpe Malsor
|-
!Spelhoe
|Abington • Boughton • Great Billing • Kingsthorpe<sup>1</sup> • Little Billing • Moulton • Overstone • Pitsford • Weston Favell
|-
!Towcester
|Cold Higham • Gayton • Pattishall • Tiffield • Towcester (Abthorpe)
|-
!Willybrook
|Apethorpe • Collyweston • Cotterstock (Glapthorn) • Duddington<sup>5</sup> • Easton-on-the-Hill • Fotheringhay • Kings Cliffe • Lutton • Nassington (Woodnewton • Yarwell) • Southwick • Tansor
|-
!Wymersley
|Blisworth • Brafield-on-the-Green • Castle Ashby • Cogenhoe • Collingtree • Courteenhall • Great Houghton • Grendon • Hardingstone • Horton (Piddington) • Little Houghton • Milton Malsor • Preston Deanery • Quinton • Rothersthorpe • Whiston • Wootton • Yardley Hastings (Denton)
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!Not in a hundred
|Northampton All Saints • Northampton St Bartholomew • Northampton St Edmund • Northampton St Giles • Northampton St Gregory • Northampton St Margaret • Northampton St Mary • Northampton St Michael • Northampton St Peter • Northampton St Sepulchre
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| colspan="2" |<sup>1</sup>chapelry to Northampton St Peter <sup>2</sup>now moved to Leicestershire <sup>3</sup>now moved to Huntingdonshire/Cambridgeshire <sup>4</sup>now moved to Lincolnshire <sup>5</sup>chapelry to Gretton
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Map
See also
- List of civil parishes in England
References
External links
- Parishes in 1851
- Office for National Statistics : Geographical Area Listings
- East Borough Council : Parish & Town Council Contacts
- Kettering Borough Council : Town & Parish Councils
- South District Council : Parish & Town Councils
- Borough Council of Wellingborough : Parish Council Clerks