EATON (BRAY), a parish in the hundred of MANSHEAD,
county of BEDFORD, 3 miles (W. by S.) from
Dunstable, containing 816 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12. 16. 3.,
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 forWesleyan
Methodists. Here was anciently a castle, built by
Cantilupe, Baron of Abergavenny, in 1221, of which
nothing remains.