WESTON-FAVELL, a parish in the hundred of
SPELHOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (E.N.E.)
from Northampton, containing 389 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's
books at £16.16. 3., and in the patronage of the Rev.
R. H. Knight. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.
Henry and Elizabeth Ekins gave a house and land in
support of a school for fifteen children, also a rentcharge
of £1 for repairs; and Thomas Green, in 1739,
gave certain other land in furtherance of this charity/
The Rev. James Hervey, author of "Meditations among
the Tombs," for many years held the rectory of this
parish, and was buried in the church.