STANFORD, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (S.E.) from
Lutterworth, containing 20 inhabitants. The living is
a  discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £9. 10. 5., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. Lady Cave was
patroness in 1818. The church is dedicated to St.
Nicholas. The river Avon, and the Grand Union canal,
pass through the parish.