COTTON-FAR, a hamlet, in the parish of HARDINGSTONE,
hundred of WYMERSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON,
5 a mile (S.) from Northampton, containing,
with Paper Mills and Delapree Abbey, 356 inhabitants.
An hospital, dedicated to St. Leonard, for a master and
leprous brethren and sisters, is  stated to have been
founded here by William the Conqueror, which was
under the superintendence of the mayor and burgesses
of Northampton: its revenue, in the 26th of Henry VIII.,
was estimated at £ 12. 6. 8.