ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



In the deanery of Preston the four rectories of Furtho, ' Wekhamon,' Quinton, Alderton and 

 Ashton had been created.^ 



In the deanery of Weldon the rectories of Great Oakley and Little Oakley had been 

 created. 



In the deanery of Rothwell there was no alteration. 



In the deanery of Haddon the rectory of Heyford and vicarage of Guilsborough had been created. 



In the later mediaeval period, even before the Reformation, the ruridecanal organization had 

 lost vitality. Under the new establishment it generally disappeared altogether. Its revival in the 

 diocese of Peterborough in 1820 was due to that strenuous disciplinarian Bishop Herbert Marsh, 

 who had already restored this order of officers in his former see of Llandaff.^ 



The present archdeaconry ' of Northampton is divided into the following rural deaneries : 

 Bracklcy First, Brackley Second, Brackley Third, Daventry, Haddon First, Haddon Second, 

 Northampton, Preston First, Preston Second, Rothwell First, Rothwell Second, Rothwell Third, 

 Weedon. 



Brackley First Deanery includes the following parishes : * Adstone, Aston-le-Walls, Boddington, 

 Byfield, Canons Ashby, Chipping Warden, Culworth, Edgcote, Eydon, Maidford, Moreton Pink- 

 ney, Plumpton, Sulgrave, Thorpe Mandeville, Wappenham, Woodford Halse cum Hinton and 

 West Farndon. 



Brackley Second Deanery includes Abthorpe, Blakesley, Bradden, Cold Higham, Gavton, 

 Green's Norton, Helmdon, Lois Weedon, Pattishall, Slapton, Stuchbury,' Syresham, Tiffield, 

 Towcester, Whittlebury cum Silverstone. 



Brackley Third Deanery includes Aynho, Brackley St. James, Brackley St. Peter, 

 Chalcombe, Croughton, Evenley, Farthinghoe, Greatworth, Hinton cum Steane, King's Sutton, 

 Marston S. Lawrence cum Warkworth, Middleton Cheney, Newbottle, Radstone,Thenford, Whitfield. 



Daventry Deanery includes Ashby St. Ledgers, Badby cum Newnham, Barby, Braunston, 

 Catesby, Charwelton, Daventry cum St. James', Fawsley, Helidon, Kilsby, Norton, Preston Capes, 

 Staverton, Welton, and Whilton. 



Haddon First Deanery includes Long Buckby, Claycoton, Cold Ashby, Cottesbrooke, Creaton, 

 Crick, Guilsborough, East Haddon, West Haddon, Hollowell, Lilbourne, Ravensthorpe, Stanford, 

 Thornby, Watford, Welford, Winwick, Yelvertoft. 



Haddon Second Deanery includes Abington, Great Billing, Little Billing, Boughton, Brington, 

 Church Brampton, Harlestone, Holdenby, Moulton, Overstone, Pitsford, Spratton, Weston Favell. 



Northampton Deanery includes Dallington, Duston, Hardingstone, Kingsthorpe (in North- 

 ampton), All Saints', St. Andrew's, St. Edmund's, St. Crispin's Christ Church, Holy Trinity, St. 

 Gabriel's, St. Giles', St. James', St. Katherine's, St. Lawrence's, St. Mary's, St. Matthew's, St. 

 Michael's, St. Paul's, St. Peter's cum Upton, St. Sepulchre's. 



Preston First Deanery includes Castle Ashby, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Courteenhall, Denton, 

 Grendon, Horton cum Piddington, Great Houghton, Little Houghton cum Brafield, Preston Deanery, 

 Quinton, Roade, Whiston, Wootton, Yardley Hastings. 



Preston Second Deanery includes Ashton, Blisworth, Cosgrove, Easton Neston, Furtho, Grafton 

 Regis cum Alderton, Hartwell, Milton Malzor, Passenham cum Denshanger, Paulerspury, Potters- 

 pury cum Yardley Gobion, Rothersthorpe, Stoke Bruerne, Wicken. 



Rothwell First Deanery includes Broughton, Doddington, Earl's Barton, Ecton, Hannington, 

 Hardwick, Great Harrowden, Little Harrowden, Isham, Mears Ashby, Orlingbury, Pytchley, 

 Sywell, Walgrave, Wellingborough, All Hallows', Wellingborough, All Saints' and Wilby. 



Rothwell Second Deanery includes Arthingworth, Little Bowden, Braybrooke, Cransley, 

 Desborough, Glendon,* Harrington, Kelmarsh, Loddington, Oxenden, Rothwell cum Orton, 

 Rushton, Thorpe Malsor. 



Rothwell Third Deanery includes Brixworth, Clipston, Draughton, East Farndon, Haselbech, 

 Holcot, Lamport cum Faxton, Maidwell, Marston Trussell, Naseby, Old, Scaldwell, and 

 Sibbertoft. 



Weedon Deanery includes Brockhall, Bugbrooke, Dodford, Everdon, Farthingstone, Floore, 

 Harpole, Heyford, Kislingbury, Litchborough, Stow Nine Churches, and Weedon. 



The present archdeaconry of Oakham comprises in Northamptonshire the rural deaneries of 

 Higham Ferrers First and Second, Oundle First and Second, Peterborough First and Second, Weldon 

 First and Second. 



' There is no return from Roade, which it is just possible was included under one of the other names. 

 ' Charge at July visitation, 1823. 



' The following particulars are derived from the Peterborough Diocesan Calendar (1906). 

 * In the case of a few of the names mentioned under the rural deaneries, especially in the towns, an 

 ecclesiastical parish in the strict sense does not yet exist, but merely a church with a district attached. 

 ' There is no church here. ' There is no church here. 



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