SPRATTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Brixworth district, Northamptonshire. The village stands 1¼ mile W of the Northampton and Leicester railway, and 6¾ NNW of Northampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Northampton-The parish includes Little Creaton hamlet, and comprises 2,810 acres. Real property, £5,715. Pop. in 1851, 961; in 1861, 1,086. Houses, 241. The property is much subdivided. S. Halland S.-Hill House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £371.* Patron, J. E. Bartlett, Esq. The church was restored in 1847. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, a free school, and a town and church estate £60.—The sub-district contains ten parishes. Acres, 23,600. Pop., 5,914. Houses, 1,298.

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