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"UPPER GRAVENHURST, a parish in the hundred of Flitt, county Bedford, half a mile north of the above, and 4 miles north east of Silsoe. The village is rather considerable, and the manufacture of straw-plait is carried on. The tithes were commuted for land and corn rents under an Enclosure Act in 1820. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ely, value £50, in the patronage of the parishioners. The church is a small Gothic structure dedicated to St. Giles. Earl de Grey is lord of the manor.""ION, a small hamlet in the parish of Upper Gravenhurst, county of Bedfordshire, 1 mile south west of Gravenhurst."