RINGSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of HIGHAM-FERRERS,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (s.byW.)
from Thrapston, containing 583 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, with Denford, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough. Thomas
Burton, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church, dedi-
cated to St. Mary, is principally in the early style of
English architecture, with a tower and spire; it contains
a plain ancient font on moulded shafts. There are places
of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. At
the hamlet of Mill Cotton are the remains of a square
Roman camp, consisting of lofty ramparts, defended hy
a deep moat; and near it is the site of an ancient town,
where fragments and foundations of walls, with a few
coins, have been turned up by the plough.