STREATLEY, a parish in the hundred of FLITT,
county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Luton,
containing, with the hamlet of Sharpenhoe, 309 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £6. 15. 2., endowed with £600
royal bounty, and in the patronage of - Cuthbert,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Richard
Norton, in 1686, gave a rent-charge of £10 in support
of a school, wherein eight boys are educated.