Moulton (St. Peter and St. Paul)
MOULTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Brixworth, hundred of Spelhoe, S. division of the county of Northampton, 4½ miles (N. N. E.) from Northampton; containing 1368 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 3060 acres of land, nearly all arable; the soil is a stiff clay, alternated with red sand, and the surface is generally flat: there are some limestone-quarries. The Northampton and Kettering road passes within a quarter of a mile of the village. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £14. 3. 9.; net income, £391; patron, E. S. Burton, Esq.; impropriator, John Nethercoat, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1772. The church is partly Norman, and partly in the later English style, with a lofty and handsome tower. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.