Description
Flitton, a village and a parish in Beds, lying on the river Flitt, 2 1/2 miles SE of Ampthill, and 2 ENE from Flitwick station on the M.R. Post town, Ampthill; money order and telegraph office, Silsoe. Acreage, 1065; population, 561. The parish includes part of the hamlet of Greenfield. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £350 with residence. Patron, Earl Cowper, K.G. The church is ancient and good, was much enlarged in 1835, and contains the burial-place of the De Grey family, handsome monuments to several Earls of Kent, and a brass of Thomas Hill, who died in 1601 when 101 years old.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
