Oundle (/ˈaʊndəl/) is a market town and civil parish on the left bank of the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 6,254 at the time of the 2021 census.

Further excavation on the site led to the findings of many Roman coins, some from the time of the reign of Emperor Claudius.

[6] The finding of red tile and building stone at a site near Ashton Road, Oundle is seen as suggestive that there may have been a Roman villa there; a nearby archaeological evaluation found a ditch containing fragments of Romano-British pottery.

Oundle was the site of a hospitium, a building used by monks to give shelter and assistance to travellers, which dates back to 638 AD.

[12] Very little is known of him but according to the Anglo-Saxon Secgan Manuscript[13] he was buried in the monastery at Oundle, near the River Nene, around 1000 AD[14] and a chapel to him built in the 11th century, on the small knoll beyond the end of St Osyths Lane.

[16] The Domesday Book of 1086 records Oundle in Polebrook hundred with a population of 36 households, a mill and a value in 1066 of £0.3, which had risen to £11 by 1086.

[17] There has been a grammar school in Oundle since at least 1465,[16] at which Sir William Laxton (Lord Mayor of London) was educated.

[19][20] The Old Town Hall, which replaced an earlier building on the same site dating back to the 16th century, was completed in 1830.

The current Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby is Tom Pursglove of the Conservative Party, who was elected in May 2015.

The council is a non-politically affiliated group that works to further the social and economic interests of Oundle.

[24] The Oundle Parish consists of approximately 900 hectares and covers the entire urban build, as well as open countryside.

[25] The region itself is located on solid formations from the Jurassic age, with Oundle being built on the sedimentary rock oolite.

The original company, Fairline Boats, which was also located in Oundle entered administration in 2015 before being acquired by Russian investors in January 2016.

The hotel is notable for the claim of being haunted by the ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was executed in Fotheringhay in 1587.

The hotel is said to contain the oak staircase taken from the ruins of Fotheringhay Castle that Mary walked down while being escorted to her execution.

Oundle School, under the instruction of then housemaster John Harrison, bought the building in the late 1970s and converted the chapel into the theatre which opened for performances in 1980.

[36] The memorial takes the form of a five-stepped octagonal base surmounted by two square plinths and a slightly tapering rectangular pillar.

The primary bus route servicing Oundle daily is the Stagecoach operated X4 that links Northampton and Peterborough.