Kettering is a market and industrial town as well as a civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northam…Kettering is a market and industrial town as well as a civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is 45 miles west of Cambridge, 31 miles southwest of Peterborough, 28 miles southeast of Leicester and 15 miles north-east of Northampton. It is west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place of Ketter's people ".