Crick, Northamptonshire

Description
Crick, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near Watling Street, adjacent to the Union Canal, 2 miles SE from Kilsby station on the L. & N.W.R,, and 6^ ESE of Rugby. It has a post and money order office-under Rugby; telegraph office, Kilyby. Acreage, 3356; population, 629. The surface is traversed by a ridge of hills forming the watershed between the basin of the Avon and the basins of the Ouse and the Nen. A tunnel of the canal through this ridge, in the vicinity of the village, is 1524 yards long. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Late Decorated and Perpendicular styles. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.