Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1866.

EATON-BRAY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1866.

"EATON-BRAY, a parish in Leighton-Buzzard district, Beds; on the verge of the county, near Stanbridgeford railway station, 3¾ miles W by S of Dunstable. It has a post-office under Dunstable; and it gives the title of Baron Braye to the family of Cave Otway. Acres, 2,650. Real property, £5,191. Pop., 1,440. Houses, 308. The property is subdivided. Part of the land is common. A castle stood here before the early part of the 13th century. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £189. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church was reported in 1859 to need repair. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans."