LUFFENHAM (NORTH), a parish in the hundred
of WRANDIKE, county of RUTLAND, 6 miles (N. E. by
E.) from Uppingham, containing 421 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at & 17. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There are day
and Sunday schools supported by funds arising from the
rent of an estate, called the Town Estate, left by Archdeacon
Johnson, formerly rector of the parish.