Canons Ashby is a small village and

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, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Preston Capes. Its most notable building is Canons Ashby House, a

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property. The

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is a surviving fragment of Canons Ashby Priory. It is situated from

Moreton Pinkney Moreton Pinkney is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Northamptonshire, about north of Brackley. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 371. The villages name means 'Moor fa ...

. A railway station was located between the two villages, on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (later part of the

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), but the station closed in April 1952. The village is part of the Daventry constituency.

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Canons Ashby "masonic" chamber discovered after 400 years.
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