Description
Thurleigh, a parish, with a village, in Bedfordshire, S 1/2 miles E by S of Sharnbrook station on the M.R., and 6 1/2 N of Bedford. It has a post office under Bedford; money order and telegraph office, Milton Ernest. Acreage, 3418; population, 529. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Crawley family. There are some moated earthworks in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £222 with residence. The church, which stands on ac eminence, is a handsome ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and a central Norman tower. Both chancel and tower are overgrown with ivy. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
