Piddington, Northamptonshire

Description
Piddington, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river None, near Salcey Forest, 2 milea W from Horton station on the Bedford. and Northampton branch of the M.R., and 5 1/2 SE by S of Northampton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Northampton. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hackleton, and comprises 1693 acres; population of the civil parish, 523; of the ecclesiastical, with Horton, 1005. The manor belongs to Lord Wantage. Some of the land in this parish belongs to the Crown. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Horton, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £177. The church is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with a lofty spire. It was restored in 1877-78 at a cost of about £1300. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Piddington, and there is a Baptist chapel at Hackleton.