Blisworth parish (the 2010 estimated population is 1,870), 880 male and 906 female, and 792 dwellings. There are also a few small businesses in and around the village. Just to the north of the village on Northampton Road there is a large derelict site, the location of a former abattoir, a garage and small industrial estate The local district council is South Northamptonshire Council (SNC) where Blisworth is in Blisworth and Roade ward together with the small hamlet of Courteenhall. The ward elects two members, currently Conservative. From the 2013 election, the parish is in the division of Bugbrook of Northamptonshire
Kilsby Tunnel presence of large amounts of quicksand; trial borings into the hill had not revealed any quicksand in the vicinity, but Stephenson had already made efforts to avoid any such an encounter being made. However, similar problems had previously been encountered during the construction of the nearby Blisworth tunnel on the Grand Union Canal only a few decades earlier. The problems that were posed by the quicksand, which was eventually revealed to be quite prevalent at tunnel level, were so severe that some considerations were allegedly made towards the abandonment of the shaft and restarting work afresh elsewhere; the resulting stress