WOLLASTON, a parish in the hundred of HIGHAMFERRERS,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S. S. E.)
from Wellingborough, containing 991 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Irchester
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£13. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Francis
Dickens, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
is a handsome cruciform structure, with a stately
tower rising from the intersection, and surmounted by
a spire. There are places of worship for Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists. The river Nen runs through
the parish.