CREATON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
GUILSBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 7 miles
(N.N.W.) from Northampton, containing 492 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £ 11. 1. 8., and in the patronage of the
Rev. Mr. Beynon. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.
In 1825, six cottages, for the accommodation of aged
widows, were built on a piece of waste land in the village,
by the Rev. Thomas Jones, late curate of the parish.
In this parish are the remains of Holmby House, where
Charles I. suffered imprisonment.