Description
St Mary's is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Bedford. St Mary's church is Later English with a Norman tower. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £436 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of London (two turns) and of Balliol College, Oxford (one turn). Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 2549; of the civil parish, 4878.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
