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"SALFORD, a parish in the hundred of Manshead, county Bedford, 4 miles north-west of Woburn, its post town. It is in conjunction with the parish of Holcutt, and is situated on Crawley Brook. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The land is partly in common. The tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1807. The living is a vicarage annexed to the rectory* of Holcutt, in the diocese of Ely. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains monuments, and a stone coffin of great antiquity, also a brass to J. Peddar, bearing date 1505. The parochial charities produce about £40 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel.""SALFORD FORD, (or modern Waterhall) a hamlet in the parish of Salford, in the county of Bedford, ¼ mile south of Salford.