Aldwinkle All Saints and Aldwinkle St Peter, formerly separate parishes, but which were amalgamated for civil and ecclesiastical purposes in 1885, in Northamptonshire, are situated on the river Nen, near Thorpe station on the L. & N.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles NNE of Thrapston. They have a post and money order office under Thrapston; telegraph office, Wadenhoe. Area, 2886 acres; population, 455. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £547, in the gift of Lord Lilford. The church shows beautiful features of Decorated English, and has a handsome tower. There is a Baptist chapel. The father of the poet Dryden was rector of Aldwinkle All Saints, and the poet was born in the parsonage. Thomas Fuller, the historian, was a native of Aldwinkle St Peter.