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Clophill, Bedfordshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1831.
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CLOPHILL:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
(unless otherwise stated)
" CLOPHILL, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 1¾ mile north-east from Silsoe, containing 838 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12, and in the patronage of the Countess De Grey. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, stands upon an eminence at some distance from the village. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Ivel passes through the parish. At Cainhoe are vestiges of the ancient moated Castle of the Barons d'Albini; the hill on which it stood is high and steep and overgrown, with coppice wood. Here was a religious house, probably a cell to St. Alban's abbey."
[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards ©2003 and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2013]