ROTHERSTHORPE, a parish in the hundred of WYMERSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (S. W.) from Northampton, containing 272 inhabitants. The living is a dischai-ged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £5. 9. 4., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of T. S. W. Samwell, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The Northampton canal passes through the parish.