WHITFIELD, a parish in the hundred of KING'S-SUTTON,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. E. by
N.) from Brackley, containing 297 inhabitants. .The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's
books at £8. 15.., and in the patronage of the Provost
and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. About twenty
poor children are instructed for £6 a year, arising
from land purchased with sundry donations.