Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire

Description
Eaton-Bray, a village and a parish in Beds, on the verge of the county, 1 1/2 mile S from Stanbridge Ford station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 3/4 miles W by S from Dunstable, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dunstable, and giving the title of Baron Braye to the family of Cave Otway. Acreage, 2417; population, 1330. A castle stood here before the early part of the 13th century. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £350 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is a building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Straw-plait is made here in considerable quantities. Damsons and other plums are extensively grown, and ducks are reared for the London market.