NORTON, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from
Daventry, containing, with the hamlets of Muscott and
Thorpe, 474 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
and in the patronage of Beriah Botfield, Esq.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Grand Junction
canal crosses the parish on the east and north.