Brington, Northamptonshire

Description
Brington, a parish comprising two villages in Northamptonshire. The villages are Great Brington and Little Brington, and the former stands 1 mile N of the latter, in the western vicinity of Althorp Park, 1 SW from Althorpe Park station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7 miles NW of Northampton, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes also the hamlet of Nobottle. Acreage, 3068; population of the civil parish, 742; of the ecclesiastical, 852. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £413 with residence. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church contains some fine monuments of the Spencer family, has a fine set of open benches of the 15th century, and is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. In the chancel there is a stone with an inscription and family arms (stars and stripes) to Laurence Washington, great-great-great-grandfather of George Washington. There is a chapel of ease and a Baptist chapel at Little Brington.