Horton, Northamptonshire

Description
Horton, a parish in Northamptonshire, on an affluent of the river Nene, near the boundary with Bucks, with a station' on the Northampton and Bedford branch of the M.R., 6 1/2 miles SE from Northampton. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Piddington. Acreage, 1936; population of the civil parish, 112; of the united ecclesiastical parish,. 1005. The manor belonged formerly to the Salusburys, the-Parrs, the Lanes, the Montagues, and others, and, with Horton. Hall, belongs now to the Phipps family. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Piddington, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £177 with residence. The church is Decorated English, and was partly rebuilt, partly restored, in 1862. It contains some interesting tombs and monuments. Montague, the first Earl of Halifax, the friend of Addison, Pope, and other literati, was born at Horton Hall.