NASEBY, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 11 miles (N. N.W.) from Northampton, containing 697 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £8, endowed with £32. 12. per annum private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £ 200 parliamentary grant. The King, by lapse, presented in 1783. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The river Avon has its source in the village, where a marketcross is still standing, this having been formerly a market town. In the vicinity was fought, June 14th, 1645, the decisive battle between the royalists and the army of the parliament, in which the former were irretrievably defeated.