WATFORD, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (N. N. E.)
from Daventry, containing 331 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£11. 7. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The
Union canal passes through the parish, which is bounded
on the west by the ancient Watling-street. Sarah
Clarke, in 1702, gave £400, now producing £42 a year,
for which about thirty children are instructed. Here
are some springs strongly impregnated with iron.