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"FAXTON, a{ parish or} chapelry in the parish of Lamport, hundred of Orlingbury, county Northampton, 2 miles E. of Lamport, and 5 S.W. of Rothwell. Northampton is its post town. It includes the hamlet of Mawsley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £300. The church is a plain edifice dedicated to St. Denis. Sir James Langham, Bart., is lord of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

"MAWSLEY, a quondam extra-parochial tract, now part of Faxton parish, Northampton; 3¼ miles S of Rothwell. Pop., 18."  [John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-72]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"FAXTON, a parish or chapelry in the parish of Lamport, hundred of Orlingbury, county Northampton, 2 miles E. of Lamport, and 5 S.W. of Rothwell. Northampton is its post town. It includes the hamlet of Mawsley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £300. The church is a plain edifice dedicated to St. Denis. Sir James Langham, Bart., is lord of the manor."

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