Kettering is a market and industrial town in the North Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It forms a civil p…Kettering is a market and industrial town in the North Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It forms a civil parish called Kettering Town. Kettering is located 67 miles north of London and 15 miles north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place of Ketter's people ".