FAXTON, a chapelry in the parish of LAMPORT, hundred of ORLINGBURY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (W. S.W.) from. Kettering,containing 85 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St: Denis. Lady Danvers, in 1730, founded an almshouse for four poor persons, and endowed it with a rent-charge of £2 per annum; and Jane Kensey, in 1736, bequeathed £100, the interest to be applied in aid of this charity.