FARTHINGSTONE, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 7 miles (N.W.) from Towcester, containing 265 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £13. 18. 11., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. On the brow of a hill is an ancient intrenchment with a lofty keep mount, called Castle Dykes, much obscured withVoods, and intersected from east to west by a large ditch; in digging among the ruins, a vaulted room was discovered, with another beneath it. On the declivity of a contiguous hill is an area of an irregular form, called the Castle Yard, with trenches on all sides except the south-west, at the bottom of which are huge heaps of cinders, earth, and pebbles.