Battlesden, a village and a parish in Beds, on Watling Street, 3 miles SSE of Woburn, and 4 1/2 W of Harlington station on the M.R. Post town, Woburn, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1149 ; population of the civil parish, 81; of the ecclesiastical, 238. The manor belonged in the time of Edward III. to the Firmbands, passed in the time of Elizabeth to the Duncombes, and was purchased in 1706 by the Bathursts, to whom it gives the title of Baron. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Pottesgrove, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £385 with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Bedford, K.G. The church is a small rectangular structure, chiefly in the Perpendicular style.
