ASPLEY-GUISE, a parish in the hundred of
MANSHEAD, county of BEDFORD, 2 miles (N. by W.)
from Woburn, containing 848 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, consolidated, in 1796, with the vicarage
of Husborn-Crawley, in the archdeaconry of Bedford,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£15. 16. 10. The church, dedicated to St. Botolph,
contains several ancient and interesting monuments.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A market on Friday, and a fair on the festival of St.
Botolph, were granted to be held here in 1267; but they
have been long discontinued. A small portion of this
parish lies in the county of Buckingham.