BARFORD (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of
BIGGLESWADE, county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (s. by w.)
from St.Neots, containing 123 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 13.16. 'A.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. John Alington. Unchurch,
dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient building
with a Norman arch over the south door, and a curious
wooden screen between the nave and the chancel. The
river Ouse forms the western boundary of the parish.
Nicholas Rowe, the dramatic writer, and poet-laureat
to George I., was a native of this place; he was buried
with much pomp in Westminster abbey in 1718.