CRICK, a parish in the hundred, of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N. byB,), from
Daventry, containing 968 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£32. 13. !§., and in the patronage of the President
and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St. Margaret. A school was endowed
upwards of fifty years ago, by William Henfray, with a
bequest of about £10 per annum, for the education of
twelve poor children. Richard Rayson, in 1806, bequeathed
£ 15 a year for teaching twenty children free;
and Elizabeth Heygate, in 1822, left £10 in trust, that
the interest should be applied for a Sunday school:
the schoolmaster to whom these several sums are paid
has the use of a schoolroom, house, and garden. The
Grand Union canal, in its course through this parish,
passes under an arch, or tunnel, one thousand five hundred
and twenty-four yards in length; and the Roman
Watling-street traces the entire western boundary.