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ARLESEY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835]
(unless otherwise stated)

"ARLESEY, a parish in the hundred of CLIFTON, county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (N.W. by W.) from Baldock, containing 562 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, to which the rectory of Astwick was united in 1764, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8, and in tlie patronage of R. Houston, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. This place is recorded in Domesday-book as a market-town, and its market, in 1270, was confirmed to Stephen Edworth, then lord of the manor, to be held on Wednesday, with a fair on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul, both of which have been long discontinued. At Etonbury, near the road to Baldock, is an ancient intrenchment, the site of the castle of the manor."

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]

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