Ashby, Canons, a parish in Northamptonshire, 1/2 mile N of Moreton Pinkney station on the Eastern and Western Junction railway, and 8 miles S of Daventry. Post town and telegraph office, Byfield (R.S.O.); money order office, Moreton. Acreage, 1830; population, 38. Here is the seat of the Dryden family. The church is the west part of the church of the priory, and contains very good work of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. No remains of the priory exist above ground.