Pertenhall, Bedfordshire

Description
Pertenhall or Partenhale (formerly Peter's Hall), a parish, with a village, in Bedfordshire, adjacent to Hunts, 4 miles S of Kimbolton station on the M.R., 7 1/2 NE of Sharnbrook, and 8 NW of St Neot's. It has a post office under St Neot's; money order and telegraph office, Kimbolton. Acreage, 1615; population of the civil parish, 276; of the ecclesiastical, 286. The manor of Hoo belongs to the Martyn family, the manor of Pertenhall to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and that of Bell's or Covington's Fee to the Claridge family. The manor house, a fine old Tudor mansion, belongs to the Campion family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £336 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Transition, Early English, and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and a western tower with fine octagonal broach spire. It was repaired in 1893, when the arcade was taken down and rebuilt, and contains the monument of a crusader, tablets to the Martyns and the Kings, and one to the youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell.