CLOPHILL, a parish in the hundred of FLITT,
county of BEDFORD, if mile (N. byE.) from Silsoe, containing
838 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £ 12, and in the patronage of the
Countess De Grey. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
stands upon an eminence at some distance from the
village. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The river Ivel passes through the parish.
At Cainhoe are vestiges of the ancient moated castle of
the Barons d'Albini; the hill on which it stood is high
and steep, and overgrown with coppice wood. Here was
a religious .house, probably a cell to St. Alban's abbey.