FARNDON (EAST), a parish in the hundred of ROTHWELL, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S.S.W.) from Market-Harborough, containing 250 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £13. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a mineral spring in the parish.