Description
Higham Gobion, a village and a parish in Beds, 4 1/2 miles WSW from Henlow station on the M.R., 7 SE from Ampthill, and 8 N from Luton. Post town, Hitchin; money order and telegraph office, Shillington. Acreage, 1298; population, 73. The manor belongs to Earl Cowper. Higham Bury is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £246 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1880, is in the Decorated style, and contains a monument to Dr. S.E. Castell, a former rector and author of the "Lexicon Heptaglotton."
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
