Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLOPHILL

CLOPHILL, a parish in Ampthill district, Beds; on the river Ivel, 3½ miles W of Shefford r. station, and 4 E of Ampthill. It has a post office under Ampthill. Acres, 2, 140. Real property, £4, 194. Pop., 1, 169. Houses, 244. There was anciently a small priory; and there are, at Castle hill or Cainhoe, traces of an ancient castle of the . Albinis. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £422.* Patron, Countess Cowper. Charities, £39. The church is a handsome edifice in the pointed style, built in 1848.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Clophill CP/AP       Ampthill RegD/PLU       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Clophill

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