FARTHINGHOE, a parish in the hundred of KINGS-SUTTON,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N.W.byW.)
from Brackley, containing 476 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£16. The Earl of Wilton was patron in 1794. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. Captain Philip
Thicknesse, a noted tourist and miscellaneous writer,
was born here in 1719.