Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England, 67 miles north of London and 15 miles north-east of Northa…Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England, 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 ".