 This is part of the district of East Northamptonshire.Thorpe Waterville lies on the A605 road some three miles north-east of the town of Thrapston.Thorpe Waterville Castle, of which only a building used as a barn remains, was mainly the work of Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Treasurer to King Edward I.

Chapel Cottage in the village, has a date stone carved into the right hand side of the ingle nook fireplace showing the year 1518.