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Slipton (St. John the Baptist)

SLIPTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Thrapston, hundred of Huxloe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 3¼ miles (W. by N.) from Thrapston; containing 159 inhabitants. It comprises 768a. 2r. 35p., including roads, cottage-gardens, and the glebe farm: the substratum contains limestone, which is quarried for road-making, and for building tenements and walls. The river Nene is about 3 miles eastward of the place; at Thrapston is a station of the Blisworth and Peterborough railway, and the Northampton road is about a mile distant. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 12. 3½.; net income, £104: the patronage and impropriation belong to Mrs. William Stopford. The tithes were commuted for land in 1771; the glebe comprises about 112 acres, with a glebe-house, which is let with the farm. The church is an ancient structure. A school of industry for girls, and a Sunday school for both sexes, are supported by Mr. and Mrs. William Stopford.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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