Slipton

Slipton is a village in the civil parish of Lowick, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. Slipton has a small but exquisite church, St John The Baptist, a short walk from Main Street by footpath on the east side of the village. The church is what makes Slipton a village rather than a hamlet as it is often mistaken for. In 1931 the parish had a population of 80.

== History == The name Slipton derives from two Old English words meaning probably "muddy farm." Slipton was mentioned in the Domesday Book. It was a small village of only six freemen. The freehold was held by the Abbot of Peterborough. By the reign of King Henry I of England, the land had been divided. William de Courcy held a hide in it whilst Richard FitzHugh held two-thirds of a hide with the nephew of the Abbot owning the remaining third. By 1235, the Knights Hospitaller owned part of the village. All the land eventually ended up in the hands of Walter de Drayton who merged it into the Drayton, Northamptonshire estate.