Northampton is a civil parish covering the greater part of the urban area of the town of Northampton, including the town centre, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. In 2021 the parish had an area of , and a population of 137,387, making it the most populous civil parish in England.
The governing body is Northampton Town Council, which is the largest parish level authority in England. The current parish was formed on 1 April 2020 with the council becoming fully functioning a year later, concurrently with local government changes in Northamptonshire.
The previous parish was formed on 1 April 1909 from St Giles, St Sepulchre, Priory of St Andrew, All Saints and St Peter, being an urban parish of the County Borough of Northampton it had no council or meeting. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished, no successor parish was formed so it became unparished with the county borough also abolished the central part of the town had no council.
As well as the parish of Northampton, there are 12 other civil parishes in the Northampton urban area, ten were pre-existing, and two (Kingsthorpe and Far Cotton and Delapre) were created concurrently with the town council (these 3 were previously unparished), these are: