WHITTLEBURY, a parish in the hundred of
GREENS-NORTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles
(S. by w.) from Towcester, containing 642 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed, with that
of Silverstone, to the rectory of Greens-Norton, in the
archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peter-
borough. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A National
school has been established, and is partly supported
out of the rents of the Slapton charity estate,
and partly by subscriptions. About eighty children are
instructed on week days, and one hundred and fifty on
Sundays.