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FLITTON, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, comprising the chapelry of Silsoe, and the township of Flitton, and containing 1069 inhabitants, of which number, 501 are in the township of Flitton, 1¼ mile (W.) from Silsoe. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lin-coln, rated in the king's books at £11.7.8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, The church, an ancient edifice, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, contains several monuments, amongst which is a figure in brass of Thomas Hill, who died in 1601, at the great age of one hundred and twenty-eight years. Southward from the village, which was anciently called Flitcham, is Pallox Hill, remarkable in the beginning of the last century for a gold mine discovered in it, which was seized for the king, and leased to a refiner; the produce, however, being too inconsiderable, it was soon abandoned.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Flitton can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 4, Book 3 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of sandstone in the Late Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled tower containing 5 bells : here is the mausoleum of the De Gray family, containing many splendid monuments, dating from the 16th century. The register dates from the year 1583.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
There is a Wesleyan chapel at Greenfield.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St John the Baptist are available on microfiche for the period 1583-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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