Description
Eversholt, a parish in Beds, adjacent to Woburn Park, 2 1/2 miles ESE from Woburn, and 4 S from Ridgmont station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Woburn; money order and telegraph office, Woburn. Acreage, 2146; population, 623. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £382 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bedford, K.G. The church is old but good, and has an ancient font. There is a charity estate of 110 acres, which produces about £245 a year, the money being divided between the church, the poor, and the schools.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
