UPTON, (Northamptonshire) on the N. W. side of Peterborough, near the Nen, at the meeting of the two Roman highways, viz.
the Forty-foot way and the Ermin-street, or Long. ditch, the first leading to Stamford, the latter to Market-Deeping. In
the R. of James I. Sir Rob. Wingfield had a fine seat here, and it has since been that of Sir William Williams.