Elkington
Elkington is a scattered parish and village, 3½ miles from the Yelvertoft station on the Rugby and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway, 4 south-west from Welford, and 9 east from Rugby, in the Mid division of the county, petty sessional division of Daventry, hundred of Guilsborongh, union and county court district of Rugby, rural deanery of Haddon (first portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The Grand Junction canal passes through the parish.
Transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914