Description
Wootton, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2 1/4 miles S by E of Northampton station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Northampton; money order office, Hardingstone; telegraph office, Far Cotton. Acreage, 1740; population of the civil parish, 824; of the ecclesiastical, 886. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Hardingstone Union Workhouse stands within this parish. The manor belongs to the Harris family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
