PERTENHALL, a parish in the hundred of STODDEN,
county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (S. W. byS.) from
Kimbolton. containing 324 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £18, and in the
patronage of the Rev. J. R. Martyn. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul. Here was formerly
a preceptory of the Knights Templars, of which only
the site, surrounded with a moat, is now remaining.
There is a chalybeate spring, called Chad-well.