[3] Located to the south of the village is Mears Ashby Hall, a fine Grade II* listed Jacobean Manor House.

[6] In 1859 the East Wing by Anthony Salvin was added by Henry Stockdale.

There are a number of windows in the village church commissioned by Sir Edmund Stockdale by noted stained glass artist Lawrence Lee which depict the family's links to the village.

In their book they recall that as late as 1785 a local inhabitant, Sarah Bradshaw, was so accused.

We learn from the Northampton Mercury on 1 August 1785 that: Thursday last, a poor woman, named Sarah Bradshaw of Mears Ashby...who was accused by some of her neighbours of being a witch, in order to prove her innocence, submitted to the ignominy of being dipped (on a ducking-stool); when she immediately sunk to the bottom of the pond; which was deemed an incontestable proof that she was no witch!