WILBY, a parish in the hundred of HAMFORDSHOE,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S.W. by W.)
from Wellingborough, containing 347 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough,  rated in the
king's books at £13. 19. 4., and in the patronage of
Mat. Easton, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
is partly in the early, and partly in the decorated,
style of English architecture, with a beautiful spire
steeple of later date.