Description
Clophill, a parish in Bedfordshire, on the river Ivel, 3 1/2 miles W of Shefford station on the M.R., and 4 E of Ampthill, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Silsoe. Acreage, 2425; population, 1068. There was anciently a small priory, and there are at Castle Hill or Cainhoe traces of an ancient castle of the Albinis. The Living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; value, £375. Patron, Countess Cowper. The church is a handsome edifice in the Perpendicular style, built in 1848. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
