BODDINGTON (LOWER-and-UPPER), a parish
in the hundred of CHIPPING-WARDEN, county of NORTHAMPTON,
9 miles (S. W. by S.) from Daventry, containing
634 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage
of Thomas Golightly, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. Richard Lamprey, in
1758, gave a tenement for a school-house, and the interest
on £300, being the amount of different benefac-,
tions, is paid to a schoolmaster for instructing sixteen
poor children.