ALDWINKLE (ALL-SAINTS), a parish in the
hundred of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles
(N.) from Thrapston, containing 240 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's
books at £ 12. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Rev.
R. Roberts, D.D. The church is remarkable for its
beautiful tower; it has some windows in the decorated
style of English architecture, and a small ornamented
chapel adjoining the southern side of the chancel.
Richard Thorpe, in 1671, bequeathed land, now producing
£16 a year, for the support of a free school for
this and the adjoining parish of St. Peter. The river
Nene flows through the parish, in which there is a
chalybeate spring. The poet Dryden was born at the
parsonage-house, in 1631.