THORNBY, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 10 miles (N.N.W.)
from Northampton, containing 1?6 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £13. The Rev. N. Cotton was patron in 1814. The
church is dedicated to St. Helen.