Southwick, Northamptonshire

Description
Southwick, a parish in Northamptonshire, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Oundle station on the Northampton and Peterborough section of the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Oundle. Acreage, 4625; population. 272. The tracts of Rockingham, Forest Lodge, Spa Lodge, Crosswayham Lodge, and Moorhay Lawn, formerly extra-parochial tracts, are now included in Southwick parish. Southwick Hall, formerly the seat of the Lynn family, who entirely endowed the church, leaving also the large charities for the poor, and to whose memory a very fine monument is placed. in the church, is now the residence of the Capron family, who own the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £120 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower surmounted by a small spire.