Description
Warkton, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 1 1/2 mile E by N of Kettering station on the M.K. It has a postal letter-box under Kettering; money order and telegraph office, Kettering. Acreage, 1924; population, 247. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £102 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church, which is in the Early English and later styles, contains some memorials of the Montagu family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
