THURNING, a parish partly in the hundred of
POLEBROOKE, county of NORTHAMPTON, but chiefly in
that of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 4
miles (S. E.) from Oundle, containing 156 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books
at £11. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge. The church is
dedicated to St. James.