GRETTON, a village and a parish in the district of Uppingham and county of Northampton. The village stands gear the river Welland and the boundary with Rutland, 2½ miles ENE of Rockingham r. station, and 4¾ SE by S of Uppingham; and has a post office under Uppingham. The parish comprises 4, 450 acres. Real property, £6, 633. Pop., 909. Houses, 196. Fully half of the land belongs to the Earl of Winchelsea. Kirby Hall, built by the Hattons in the time of Elizabeth, is a large and beautiful mansion going to ruin. Many Roman and early mediæval coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £268. * Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church was rebuilt in 1868, and is in the second pointed style. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £14.

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