STOKE-BRUERNE, a parish in the hundred of
CLELEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (E. N. E.)
from Towcester, containing, with the chapelry of ShuttJehanger,
732 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £30, and in the
patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose
College, Oxford, The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
The Grand Junction canal passes through a tunnel two
miles long, partly in this parish, and partly in that of
Blisworth. Ten pounds a year, the bequest of Elizabeth
Prowse, is applied in support of a day and a Sunday
school chiefly maintained by the Dowager Lady Mordaunt.