SHITLINGTON, a parish partly in the hundred of
CLIFTON, and partly in that of FLITT, county of BEDFORD,
4 miles (B. S. E.) from Silsoe, containing, with the
hamlets of Holywell and Lower Stondon, 1149 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage with Gravenhurst,
in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £18, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Trinity
College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, is a large and handsome edifice 5 the tower was
rebuilt by the parishioners in 1750.