Whiston is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cogenhoe and Whiston, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.

The present building was built for Anthony Catesby in the early 16th century.

The quarrying must at first have been done by hand with the aid of explosives but a steam navvy and a transporter machine was brought in in 1915.

The ore was taken away by a steeply graded standard gauge railway leading to sidings at the London & North Western Railway's Northampton to Peterborough line.

This was operated by a steam locomotive (a saddle tank engine built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co Ltd.) The gradient was in favour of the loaded trains.