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"SPRATTON, a parish in the hundred of Spelhoe, county Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Northampton, its post town. The village is situated on the road from Northampton to Leicester and the river Nen. The Pytchley hounds meet in this neighbourhood. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Creaton, belonging to the ward of Guilsborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £375. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, was restored in 1846. The parochial charities produce about £48 per annum. There is a free school for both sexes, also an infant school. The Independents and Baptists have each a chapel."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"SPRATTON, a parish in the hundred of Spelhoe, county Northampton, 6½ miles N.W. of Northampton, its post town. The village is situated on the road from Northampton to Leicester and the river Nen. The Pytchley hounds meet in this neighbourhood. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Creaton, belonging to the ward of Guilsborough. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £375. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, was restored in 1846. The parochial charities produce about £48 per annum. There is a free school for both sexes, also an infant school. The Independents and Baptists have each a chapel."

"LITTLE CREATON, a hamlet in the parish of Spratton, in the county of Northampton, adjoining Great Creaton. It contains about twenty houses. The tithes were commuted in 1782.

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