GREENS-NORTON, a parish in the hundred of
GREENS-NORTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, if mile
(N. W. by W.) from Towcester, containing 740 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, with theperpetual curacies of
Silverstone and Whittlebury consolidated, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's hooks at £38, and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.
Here was formerly a chantry, of which a barn
and yard are the only remains. The parish is bounded
on the south by the river Tow, and on the east by the
Watling-street. Near Kingston wood is a mineral spring.
A small endowed school has been incorporated with the
National school lately established here. This is the birthplace
of Catherine Parr, the sixth queen of Henry VIII.