PITCHLEY, a parish in the hundred of OKLINGBURY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S. by W.)
from Kettering, containing 452 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton and
diocese of Peterborough, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. William Aylworth,
in 1661, bequeathed a rent-charge of £18 for the sup
port of a free school: there is also a small endowment
in land, with a house for the master, by a person unknown,
for a similar purpose.