The Deli @Castle Ashby

The Deli @ Castle Ashby is a family-run delicatessen in the rural shopping yard on the Castle Ashby estate, between Northampton and Wellingborough. Its counters concentrate on locally sourced and home-made produce: a wide cheese selection, handmade chocolates, and kitchen output such as sausage rolls, pork pies and scotch eggs made on the premises, along with preserves, deli goods and gifts. At weekends it operates as a licensed eatery, serving home-cooked food from Friday through Sunday in addition to its shop trade. The setting, a converted courtyard of estate outbuildings, places it among a small run of independent rural shops rather than on a high street. It remains a single, independently owned unit rather than part of a chain of food halls. For visitors to the wider estate and gardens, it doubles as a stop for lunch and provisions.