HORTON, a parish in the hundred of WYMERSLEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (S,E.) from Northampton,
containing 87 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage with the curacy of Piddington, in the,archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £717.1., and endowed with
£400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Sir
R. Gunning, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Charles Montague, first earl of Halifax, was born at
Horton house in 1661.