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Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1831.

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EATON BRAY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
(unless otherwise stated)

" EATON BRAY, a parish in the hundred of MANSHEAD, county or BEDFORD, 3½ miles (south-west) from Dunstable, containing 816 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12.16.3., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here was anciently a castle, built by Cantilupe, Baron of Abergavenny, in 1221, of which nothing remains."

[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards ©2003 and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2013]