Maidford

"MAIDFORD, a parish in the hundred of Greens-Norton, county Northampton, 6 miles N.W. of Towcester, its post town, and 8 S.E. of Daventry. A tributary of the river Tow flows through the parish, and the Weedon station on the London and North-Western line of railway is about 6 miles N. of the village. The manufacture of silk stockings was formerly carried on, and many of the women are employed in making lace. There are quarries of building-stone and limestone. The greater portion of the tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act. There is a chalybeate spring; formerly in high repute. The living is a rect* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £289. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, is a stone edifice, with a square tower surmounted with a pyramidal roof of tiles. The parochial charities produce £21 per annum, chiefly arising from 10 acres of land let in allotments, one half the rental of which is for church repairs and the other for the poor. The Wesleyans have a chapel. William Grant, Esq., is lord of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]