Description
Stanbridge, a small village and a parish in Beds, 1 mile NNW of Stanbridgeford station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 miles ESE of Leighton Buzzard. There is a post office under Leighton Buzzard; money order and telegraph office, Hockliffe. Acreage, 1514; population, 402. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Hanmer family. Many of the inhabitants are employed in straw-plait working. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £259 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leighton Buzzard. The church is an ancient Gothic edifice, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
