STREATLEY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
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"STREATLEY, a parish in the hundred of FLITT,
county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Luton,
containing, with the hamlet of Sharpenhoe, 309 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £6. 15. 2., endowed with £600
royal bounty, and in the patronage of - Cuthbert,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Richard
Norton, in 1686, gave a rent-charge of £10 in support
of a school, wherein eight boys are educated."
- "SHARPENHOE, a hamlet in the parish of STREATLEY,
hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 4 miles
(S.S.W.) from Silsoe. The population is returned with
the parish. This hamlet contains a charity school for
the instruction of eight children, founded by Richard
Norton, in 1686, and endowed with a rent-charge of
£10. Thomas Norton, a dramatic writer, was born here
in the early part of the sixteenth century; he died about
1600."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]
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