DUSTON, a parish in the hundred of NOBOTTLEGROVE,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 1 mile (W. by N.)
from Northampton, containing 484 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £6. 8. 10., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Lord Viscount Melbourne. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. The parish is bounded on the
south-east and north-east by branches of the river Nine,
or Nen. There are remains of St. James's abbey for
Black canons, founded about 1112, by William Peverel,
natural son of William the Conqueror, the revenue of
which, at the dissolution, amounted to £175. 8. 2.