MILTON-ERNEST, a parish forming, with the
parishes of Clapham and Oakley, a detached portion of
the hundred of STODDEN, county of BEDFORD, 5 miles
(N. W. byN.) from Bedford, containing 364 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the Icing's books
at £7. 6. 8. Edmund Turner, Esq. was patron in 1825.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. An ahnshouse
for six poor persons was founded, in 1693, by Sir Edmund
Turnor, who endowed it with lands now producing
about £40 per annum.