COTTESBROOK, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 8 miles (N.N. W.)
from Northampton, containing 297 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £26. 0. 10., and in the patronage of Sir J. Langham,
Bart. The church is dedicated to All Saints. An
hospital for two widowers and six widows was founded
by Sir James Langham, in 1651, and endowed with
fifty-three acres of land in Sibbertoft, as specified in
a deed enrolled in Chancery at that period. A cell of
Premonstratensian canons existed here, foundations of
which have been dug up, the site appearing to have been
surrounded by a moat.