ROADE, a parish in the hundred of CLELEY, county
of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (S.) from Northampton, containing
480 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
annexed to the rectory of Collingtree, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship
for Baptists.