BENEFIELD, a parish in the hundred of POLEBROOK, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (W.) from Oundle, containing 444 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £35. 9. 7., and in the patronage of J. Watts Russell, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has been lately repaired at the expense of Mr. Russell: near it are the site and moat of an old castle. The parochial school is endowed with £ 10 per annum. About a furlong to the west of the village are nine of those cavities in the earth, commonly called " Swallows," into which the waters of the land floods flow and disappear.