HIGHAM FERRARS, a borough and market-town of England, Northamptonshire, 15 miles E.N.E. of Northampton, on the Peterborough branch of the London and North-Western Railway. The parish church is a large and handsome building, richly ornamented with carvings and monuments. The old cross in the market-place, and the ruins of the ancient college, are interesting to the antiquary. There is a neat town-hall and a grammar school in the town, which before the Reform Act used to return one member to parliament. Shoes are the chief industrial product of the inhabitants. Pop. (1851) 1140.