MILTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire. The village stands near the Northampton canal, 1 mile NE of Blisworth-Junction r. station, and 3½ SSW of Northampton; is sometimes called Middleton-Malzor; and has a postoffice, of the name of Milton, under Northampton. The Parish comprises 1,190 acres. Real property, £3,763. Pop., 668. Houses, 144. The manor belongs to J. Blake, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Valne, £340. * Patron, the Rev. T. A. Kershaw The church is good, and has a spire. There are a Baptist chapels and charities £52. &md. The Subdistrict contains also five other parishes. Acres, 7,930. Pop., 2,857. Houses, 621.

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