Litchborough

"LITCHBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 6 miles S.W. of Weedon, its post town and railway station on the London and North-Western railway, and 6 N.W. of Towcester. The village, which is small, and wholly agricultural, is of great antiquity, having been one of the four garrisoned towns in this county taken by the Saxons in 571. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Foxley, is watered by a tributary of the river Tow. The surface is hilly. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £478. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a stone structure, with a tower at the W. end containing three bells. It was thoroughly restored and a gallery added in 1842. The interior contains an altar tomb to Sir John Needham, with a figure of a knight in armour. The parochial charities produce about £145 per annum, of which £32 go to Lady Leveson's free school. The Baptists have a place of worship. William Blake, Esq., is lord of the manor."

"FOXLEY, a hamlet in the parishes of Blakesley, Pattishall, and Litchborough, hundred of Towcester, county Northampton, 3 miles N.W. of Towcester. This is a meet for Lord Southampton's hounds."