FELMERSHAM, a parish in the hundred of
WILLEY, county of BEDFORD, 7 miles (N.W. by N.)
from Bedford, containing, with the hamlet of RacKveU,
390 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
with the vicarage of Pavenham united, in the archdeaconry
of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £13. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice in
the early style of English architecture. The river Ouse
runs through the parish, and is crossed by a bridge at
Radwell.