Ashby-St. Ledgers, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, near Watling Street and the Oxford and Grand Junction Canals, 2 miles W of Welton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 N of Daventry. There is a post office under Rugby; money order and telegraph office, Kilsby. Acreage of the parish, 1935; population, 293. The distinctive name St Ledgers is taken from the patron saint of the church. Ashby manor house, a substantial old mansion, belonged to the Catesbys, passed to the Jansons, and is now the property of the Senhouse family. A small room in one of its offices was the place where Robert Catesby and his fellow conspirators concocted the Gunpowder Plot. Ashby St Ledgers Lodge is another chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross yearly value, £140. The church is an edifice of nave and aisles, with tower and spire; has screen, rood loft, and three piscinas; and contains an altar tomb of William Catesby and his wife, of date 1493. This Catesby was the favourite of Richard III., fought for him at the battle of Bosworth, and was captured there and beheaded at Leicester.