IRCHESTER, a parish in the hundred of HIGHAM-FERRERS,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (E. S. B.)
from Wellingborough, containing 689 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Wollaston,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of
Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £8. The
church, dedicated to St. Catherine, is partly in the early,
and partly in the later, style of English architecture.
There is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists.
Within the parish are vestiges of a Roman fortification,
the area of which includes about eighteen acres.