Canons Ashby House, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
A country house was first built by John Dryden. He had acquired the former monastic estate on the death of Sir John Cope in 1558. The house, which is thought to incorporate part of an earlier farmhouse, is on top of the buried remains of part of the Medieval settlement of Canons Ashby. The settlement was first documented in the Domesday Book when the population was recorded as 16. Houses and plots of land were granted to the Augustinian Priory when it was founded in the mid 12th century and by the mid 13th century it was known as Canons Ashby.
