HEYFORD (Nether), or Lower Heyford, a village and a parish in the district and county of Northampton. The village stands near Watling street, the river Nen, and the Grand Junction canal, 2¼ miles SE of Weedon r. station, and 6 WSW of Northampton; and has a postoffice, of the name of Heyford, under Weedon. The parish comprises 1, 690 acres. Real property, £3, 936; of which £500 are in ironworks. Pop. in 1851, 624; in 1861, 807. Houses, 166. The increase of pop. was occasioned by the erection of ironworks. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Mrs. Ann Crawley. A Roman pavement, indicating the site of a Roman villa, was discovered here in 1699. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £300.* Patron, Rev. T. W. Crawley. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains the tomb of Judge Morgan, who pronounced sentence on Lady Jane Grey, and a brass of 1497. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £105 a year, and other charities with £40. Stanbridge, the scholar, and Preston, the distinguished puritan, were natives.

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