RAVENSDEN, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD,
county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (N.N.E.) from Bedford,
containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7,
and in the patronage of the Duke of Bedford. The
church is dedicated to All Saints.