OAKLEY (GREAT), .a parish hi the hundred of
CORBY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (N.) from
Kettering, containing 183 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, and in the patronage of
Sir Richard Brooke, Bart. The church is dedicated to
St. Michael.