WOLLASTON, a parish, with a village, in Wellingborough district, Northampton; on the river Nen and on the Northampton and Peterborough railway, 2½ miles SSW of Wellingborough r. station. It has a post-office under Wellingborough. Acres, 3,640. Real property, £6,451. Pop. in 1851, 1,261; in 1861, 1,443. Houses, 306. The manor belongs to the trustees of the late Major Hill. The living is a vicarage, united with Irchester, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £440.* Patron, the Rev. T. Wood. The church is early English and cruciform, and has a central tower and spire. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £22.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))