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Strixton (St. John the Baptist)

STRIXTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Higham-Ferrers, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4¼ miles (S. by E.) from Wellingborough; containing 55 inhabitants. It comprises about 970 acres, and is varied by a portion of hilly ground; the soil is in general cold and heavy. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Bozeat, and valued in the king's books at £7. The church is a small edifice, affording a good specimen of the early English style.

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

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