Description
Crawley-Husborne, a parish in Beds, three-quarters of a mile SW of Ridgmount station on the L. & N.W.R., and 1 1/2 mile NNE of Woburn. Post town, Bletchley station; money order and telegraph office, Aspley Guise. Acreage, 1610 ; population, 410. Crawley House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church, a building of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and lofty embattled western tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
