Description
Barford, Great a parish in Bedfordshire, on the river Ouse, 1 1/2 mile NW from Blunham station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 miles E by N of Bedford. It has a post and money order office under St Neot's; telegraph office, Blunham. Acreage, 2868; population, 746. The property is subdivided. The river Ouse is here crossed by a bridge of about the beginning of the 16th century, and was till lately navigable. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Roxton, in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £400 with residence. The church is modern, but the tower is Late Perpendicular. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a public elementary school, and several useful charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
