Keysoe, Bedfordshire

Description
Keysoe, a village and a parish in Bedfordshire. The village stands 4 miles SSW of Kimbolton station on the M.R., and 7 1/2 W by N of St Neots, was anciently called Caissot, is a very scattered place connected at the ends with Keysoe Row and Brook End, and has a post office under St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Riseley. Acreage, 3699; population, 662. A broken piece of ground in the NE is thought to have been the site of a Romano-British town. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £285. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is a building of stone chiefly in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles, consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with W tower and spire, and contains an Early English font and a piscina. There are Baptist chapels at Keysoe Row, Brook End, and Mill Hill.