Alderton, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, near Watling Street, the Tove river, and the Grand Junction Canal, 3 1/4 miles W of Roade station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 SE of Towcester, which is the post town and the telegraph office; money order office, Paulerspury. Acreage, 882; population, 123. Lace-making is carried on. The living is a rectory, annexed to Grafton-Regis, in the diocese of Peterborough ; joint gross yearly value, £262 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is modern, and in the Perpendicular English style. The Duke of Grafton is lord of the manor and chief landowner.