Description
Clapham, a village and a parish in Bedfordshire, on the river Ouse, 1 1/2 mile from Oakley station on the M.R., and 2 1/4 miles NNW of Bedford, with a post office under Bedford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1995; population, 725. Clapham Park is a fine Elizabethan mansion situated on the south side of Clapham wood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value £183. The church has an Early Saxon tower, and was mainly rebuilt in 1861. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
