UPTON, a parish in the hundred of NOBOTTLEGROVE,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (W.) from
Northampton, containing 45 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of St. Peter's,
Northampton, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael. The parish is bounded on the west by
the river Nen. Here are still the remains of a castle
founded by Simon de St. Liz. James Harrington, an
eminent political writer in the time of the Commonwealth,
was born at Upton Hall, in 1611.