BUCKBY (LONG), a parish in the hundred of
GUILSBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles
(N. E.) from Daventry, containing, with the hamlet of
Murcott, 1843 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese
of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £10,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royalbounty;
and £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The
church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. There is a place
of worship for Particular Baptists. Langton Freeman,
in 1783, gave £400 for the endowment of a school for
poor children.