OXENDEN (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
ROTHWELL, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S. by
E.) from Market-Harborough, containing 277 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £ 13. 8. 4. Henry Boulton, Esq. was
patron in 1786. The church is dedicated to St. Helen.
Sir George Buswell, in 1667, founded and liberally endowed
a free school and hospital here, for the benefit
of the inhabitants of Clipston, East Farndon, Haselbeech,
Kelmarsh, Marston, Oxenden, and Trussell, to
which Francis Horton subsequently bequeathed £200.