SHELTON, a parish in the hundred of STODDEN,
county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Kimbolton,
containing 129 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £13, and in the
patronage of Lord St. John. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. This parish has the privilege of sending
five boys to the free school which was founded, in 1702,
by Joseph Neale, in the adjoining parish of Nether
Dean.