A Community Governance Review concluded in February 2015 resulted in the ward of Pipewell being moved from civil parish of Wilbarston to Rushton.

[1] All of the settlement is built around three fields where this used to be, which contains the Harpers Brook, a tributary of the River Nene, running through the centre.

[2] It was located within the old Rockingham Forest and some of its income came from sale of the timber and undergrowth.

The abbey was suppressed as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in November 1538, despite the representations of local gentleman, especially Sir William Parr (later Marquess of Northampton).

[4] West of the site, there is a mill pond and dam, together with a series of medieval quarries which have been worked into the twentieth century.