HIGHAM (COLD), a parish in the hundred of TOWCESTER, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N.W. by N.) from Towcester, containing 314 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Earl of Pomfret. The church is dedicated to St. Luke. The parish is bounded on the north-east by the Roman Watling-street.