Strixton, Northamptonshire

Description
Strixton, a small village, consisting of three farms and a few cottages, and a parish in Northamptonshire, 4 miles S by W of Wellingborough, where there are stations on the L. & N.W.R. and M.R. Post town, Wellingborough; money order and telegraph office, Wollaston. Acreage of the civil parish, 812; population, 61; of the ecclesiastical, with Bozeat, 1334. The manor, with all the land, belongs to Earl Spencer. The living is a rectory, annexed to Bozeat, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net value, £181 with residence. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church, rebuilt in 1874 at a cost of £2000, on exactly the same plan as the older building, is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a bell-cot of stone over the western gable.