Description
Bromham, a parish with a village in Bedfordshire, on the river Ouse, 2 miles SW of Oakley station on the M.R., and 3 WNW of Bedford. There is a post office under Bedford; money order and telegraph office, Bedford. Acreage, 1827 ; population of the civil parish, 319; of the ecclesiastical, with Oakley, 569. Bromham Hall is the seat of the Dynevor family. A bridge of 26 arches crosses the Ouse at the village. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Oakley, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £270 with residence. Patron, Eton College. The church is very ancient but good, has a square tower, and contains monuments of the Dyves and the Trevors. There is a fine brass of 1435 date.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
