Description
Tilbrook, a village and a parish in Bedfordshire, on the border of Huntingdonshire, 1 1/4 mile S of Kimbolton station on the Kettering and Cambridge branch of the M.R., with a post office under St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Kimbolton. Acreage, 1683; population, 314. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Tilbrook Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £220 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1867, is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with N vestry, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower with octagonal spire. There are Moravian and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
