QUINTON, a parish in the hundred of WYMERSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (s. S. E.) from Northampton, containing 115 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £11. 3. 9., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.