GEDDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of CORBY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N. E. by N.) from Kettering, containing 751 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king 3 books at £5 11. 0v endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. To the north-east of it there was formerly a royal seat, called the Castle, or Hall Close, where Henry II. held a parliament in 1188, to raise money for a crusade. In tlie centre of the village stands one of the elegant crosses erected by Edward I. to the memory of his consort Eleanor.