PIPEWELL, a hamlet partly in the parishes of GREAT-OAKLEY and WILBARSTON, hundred of CORBY, and partly in the parish of RUSHTON, hundred of ROTHWELL, county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Kettering. An abbey for Cistercian monks, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded here, in 1143, by William de Boutevylein, which, at the dissolution, had a revenue of £347. 8.