PULLOXHILL, a parish in the hundred of FLITT,
county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (S.W.) from Silsoe, containing
475 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9. 10., and in
the patronage of the Countess de Grey. The church is
dedicated to St. James. A vein, of gold has been discovered
here, but the produce is not sufficient to defray
the expense of working it.