[3] The rural civil parish has a population of about 70 and about 1,800 acres (730 ha) of mainly farmland and woods around the South Northamptonshire communities of Easton Neston House, and the hamlets of Hulcote and Showsley.

Showsley can be accessed by a left turn off the A43 road between Northampton and Towcester about half a mile south of the Tiffield and Blisworth junctions.

The Easton Neston House and Estate are private property and may be periodically open to the public.

Easton Neston House was built for Sir William Fermor (later Lord Leominster ("Lem-ster")) in 1685-1695 and remodelled by Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1700-1702.

[6] It was built on the site of Easton Nestone village, the main Oxford to Northampton road being re-routed to the west.

[6] There are several monuments to the Fermor-Hesketh family from the main house including Sir Richard Fermor (d.1552).

In January 2011, the BBC were due to record a service from the church as part of a documentary on Easton Neston.

[8] The area was explored by Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team in 2007 and the episode about the dig first screened on 27 January 2008.

This can be viewed on the Time Team Channel on YouTube, the episode is called “The Naughty Nuns of Northamptonshire”.

There were some striking floor tiles decorated with images of a dog and others with a flower; and large amounts of pottery.

In 1891 when the S and MJR was built next to the quarries and brickworks (see above) the existing branch railway was made redundant and the ore and bricks were taken away by the new line.

Short narrow gauge tramways connected the claypit to the brickworks and the iron ore quarries to the railway sidings.