[2] For Hackleton, Piddington and Horton combined, and together with the surrounding rural area sparsely populated, the data shows 1,568 residents, 756 male and 812 female, living in 606 dwellings.

Hackleton also used to be home to the Easyrider, a specialist upholstery shop dealing with sheep skin and wool products.

Other amenities include 'The Rec'; local recreational ground, which is the home pitch for village side AFC Hackleton.

There is also the local war memorial, a butcher and a 'pocket' park, formerly the land boundary between Hackleton and Piddington where a stream known as Wootton Brook flows to the west in a shallow valley.

The inscription on the chapel reads:"This place of worship was erected to the glory of God: in memory of Dr Carey, the father of modern missions to the heathen, and one of the founders, and the first missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society; he toiled as a shoemaker, was converted to God and preached his first sermon in this village.