SHARPENHOE, a hamlet in the parish of STREATLEY,
hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 4 miles
(S.S.W.) from Silsoe. The population is returned with
the parish. This hamlet contains a charity school for
the instruction of eight children, founded by Richard
Norton, in 1686, and endowed with a rent-charge of
£10. Thomas Norton, a dramatic writer, was born here
in the early part of the sixteenth century: he died about
1600.