Rushton, Northamptonshire

Description
Rushton, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on the river Ise and on the M.R., 3 1/2 miles NNW of Kettering, and has a station on the railway and a post office under Kettering; money order and telegraph office, Rothwell. The parish comprises 3231 acres; population, 445. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged to the Cockaynes, passed to the Hopes, and belongs now to the Thornhills. Rushton Hall, a seat of the Thornhill family, is a fine mansion of stone standing in a well-wooded park of about 360 acres. In the grounds there is a very curious and interesting triangular lodge erected about the close of the 16th century. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £430 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle with chapel, S porch, and an embattled western tower, and containing some ancient tombs and monuments.