Description
Felmersham, a village and a parish in Bedfordshire. The village stands on the river Ouse, 2 miles SW of Sharnbrook station on the M.R., and 7 NNW of Bedford, and has a post office under Bedford; money order and telegraph office, Sharnbrook. The parish includes also the hamlet of Radwell. Acreage, 1991 ; population, 430. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £137 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church was built in the 11th and 12th centuries by the Benedictine monks, and has a splendid tower with a fine peel of five bells. The chancel has a magnificent reredos of alabaster. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Radwell.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
