BLISWORTH, a parish in the hundred of WYMERSLEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N.E. by N.)
from Towcester, containing 696 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£20. 3. 9., and in the patronage of George F. Hatton,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The Grand Junction canal enters this parish by means
of a tunnel from the adjoining parish of Stoke-Bruerne,
and continues its course northward until it is joined by
the Northampton canal.