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STREATLEY, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Luton, containing, with the hamlet of Sharpenhoe, 309 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6.15.2., endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of - Cuthbert, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Richard Norton, in 1686, gave a rent-charge of £10 in support of a school, wherein eight boys are educated.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Streatley & Sharpenhoe can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 7, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Margaret is an ancient fabric in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a western embattled tower containing 2 bells: the font is Early English, consisting of an octagonal basin with richly worked sides, supported on a solid stone with four attached shafts, between which are spaces filled in with toothed ornament; there are some good benches panelled with the linen pattern : the church was re-seated in 1896 and affords sittings for 260 persons. The register dates from the year 1693.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in the year 1858.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St. Margaret, are available on microfiche for the period 1693-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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