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LIMBURY-CUM-BISCOT (BISHOPSCOTE) is a village and parish 2½ miles north-west from Luton stations on the Midland and Great Northern railway, and is in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Flitt, Luton union; petty sessional division and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Luton, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. The hamlets of Limbury-cum- Biscot and Leagrave were in 1866 formed into the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity, Biscot, and in 1896, under the provisions of section I (3) of the 'Local Government Act, 1894 (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), they became separate civil parishes.
Francis Crawley esq. and Mr. Crosse are the principal landowners. Here is a small Baptist chapel. Here was once a nunnery, founded by Roger, abbot of St. Albans, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which, at its dissolution, was valued at £143. Several skeletons have been found in this hamlet. The area is 2,454 acres; rateable value, £5,106; the population of the civil parish in 1891 was 404, and of the ecclesiastical parish, 1,004.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire -1898]
The 1851 Census Index for Limbury Cum Biscot can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 7, Books 2 & 3 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
The church of the Holy Trinity, built in1867 at the cost of the late John Sambrooke Crawley esq. consists of chancel, nave, north transept, north porch, organ chamber on the south side, and a western bell-cote containing 2 bells: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1867. The living is a vicarage, endowed in 1867 by J. S. Crawley esq. average net yearly value £121, with residence, built by the patron, in the gift of Francis Crawley esq., and held since 1894 by the Rev. Erskine William Langmore M.A. of Keble College, Oxford.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
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