RUSHTON, a village and a parish in Kettering district, Northampton. The village stands on the river Ise, and on the Leicester and Hitchin railway, 3½ miles N N W of Kettering; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Kettering. The parish comprises 2, 960 acres. Real property, £5, 201. Pop., 484. Houses, 93. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with R. Hall, belonged to the Cockaynes, passed to the Hopes, and belongs now to W.C. Thornhill, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700. Patron, W.C. Thornhill, Esq. The church is ancient. There is a national school.

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