Abthorpe, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on the river Tove, 8 miles WSW of Towcester, and 1 mile SW of Wappenham station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Towcester, which is the money order and telegraph office. The parish includes the hamlet of Foscote. Acreage, 1973; population, 433. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; yearly value, about £200. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Peterborough and the Trustees of Leeson's charity. The church, which was rebuilt in 1870-71, is a building of stone in the Early English style. Lace-making and the manufacture of boots and shoes are the chief employments.