Adstone, formerly a chapelry in Ashby-Canons parish, but which was made a separate parish for all purposes in 1865, in Northamptonshire, 1 1/2 mile E from Moreton Pinkney station on the East and West Junction railway, and 6 3/4 WNW from Towcester, which is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1430; population, 138. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, about £90 with residence. Patrons, the Sons of Clergy Corporation. There is a Wesleyan chapel.