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"COPLE, a parish in the district and county of Bedford; on an affluent of the river Ouse, 1½ mile E of Cardington railway station, and 3½ ESE of Bedford. Post-town, Bedford. Acres, 2,109. Real property, £3,379. Pop., 565. Houses, 110. Cople Hall was the seat of the late Earl of Ludlow. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £215. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church has eight brasses of 1380 and later dates."