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GREAT BARFORD:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835] (unless otherwise stated)

"GREAT BARFORD, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD, county of BEDFORD, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from Bedford, containing 635 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Roxton, in the archdeaconry of. Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The navigable river Ouse, here crossed by a bridge, runs along the south-eastern border of the parish."