Description
Blunham, a village and a parish in Beds. The village stands on the river Ivel, near the Cambridge and Bedford line of the L. & N.W.R., on which it has a station, and 7 miles E. of Bedford. It was once a market-town. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sandy. Acreage of parish, 1205; population of civil parish, 599; of the ecclesiastical, 637. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £500 with residence. Patron, Earl Cowper. The church is Norman, and good. There are two Baptist chapels. Blunham House, belonging to the Payne family, is a chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
