Description
Dallington, a parish in Northamptonshire, on a branch of the river Nen, 1 1/2 mile NW of Northampton. It has a post office under Northampton; money order and telegraph office, St James' End. The civil parish includes a portion of St James' End. Acreage, 1528; population of the civil parish, 2233 ; of the ecclesiastical, 4413. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £358. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles. There are four endowed almshouses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
