HANNINGTON, a parish in the hundred of ORLINGBURY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N. N. W.)
fromWellingborough, containing 177 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory consolidated with that of Walgrave,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of
Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £10. 11. 3.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Dr.
Francis Godwin, successively Bishop of Llandaff and
Hereford, a distinguished antiquary and biographer,
was born, in 1561, in this parish, of which his father
was rector, and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells;
he died in 1633.