BRINGTON, a parish in the hundred of NOBOTTLE-GROVE,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 7 miles (N.W. by W.)
from Northampton, containing 874 inhabitants. The
living is a'rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £40, and in the patronage of Earl Spencer. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains some fine monuments
to the memory of deceased members of the
Spencer family, among which is that of Henry Spencer,
first Earl of Sunderland, killed at the battle of Newburyj
in 1644. There is a place of worship for Particular
Baptists. Althorp, in this parish, which was formerly
more populous, now contains only the noble mansion
of Earl Spencer, to whom it gives the inferior title
of viscount.