STOTFOLD, a parish in the hundred of CLIFTON,
county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (N. W.) from Baldock,
containing 693 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5. 17. 1.,
endowed with £1200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £ 900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College,
Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.