WOODFORD, a parish in the hundred of HUXLOE,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Thrapstone, containing 572 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory in united medieties, in the archdeaconry of
Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated jointly
in the king's books at £22. 9. 7., and in the patronage
of Henry Batley, Esq. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. In the neighbourhood are three tumuli, near
which have been found Roman tiles, fragments of a tesselated
pavement, an urn, and two small coins of the
Lower Empire, inscribed Constantinopolis.