Sywell (St. Peter and St. Paul)

SYWELL (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Hamfordshoe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. E.) from Northampton, on the road to Stamford; containing 211 inhabitants. The parish comprises by admeasurement 1950 acres, exclusively of 127a. 24p. occupied by Sywell woods: stone is quarried for the roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 1. 5½.; net income, £492; patron, Earl Brownlow. There is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 70 acres. The church is an ancient structure with a tower; the eastern window is of stained glass, inserted at the expense of the Hon. and Rev. H. C. Cust, the rector: the interior of the edifice was entirely renovated in 1838.