Laxton, Northamptonshire

Description
Laxton, a parish in Northamptonshire, near the river Wel-land, at the boundary with Rutland, 3 miles E of Harringworth station on the M.B., and 6 SE of Uppingham. Post town, Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Harringworth. Acreage, 1353; population, 119. Lord Carbery is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Laxton Hall, the seat of Lord Carbery, has a good Ionic portico and a fine vestibule; contains a good collection of pictures, chiefly by the old masters, and stands in a well-timbered park of about 250 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, -£20. Patron, Lord Carbery. The church, a very ancient building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, was restored throughout in 1867.