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Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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HUSBORNE-CRAWLEY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

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

"HUSBORNE-CRAWLEY, a parish in the hundred of MANSHEAD, county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Woburn, containing 572 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Bedford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, occupies an elevated situation, and has a tower eighty feet high."

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]