FLITTON, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county
of BEDFORD, comprising the chapelry of Silsoe, and the
township of Flitton, and containing 1009 inhabitants,
of which number, 501 are in the township of Flitton, Ijj
mile (W.) from Silsoe. The li\ ing is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £ 11. 7. 8., and in the
patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church,
Oxford. The church, an ancient edifice, dedicated
to St. John the Baptist, contains several monuments,
amongst which is a figure in brass of Thomas Hill, who
died in 1601, at the great age of one hundred and twentyeight
years. Southward from the village, which was
anciently called Fliteham, is Pallox hill, remarkable
in the beginning of the last century for a gold mine
discovered in it, which vras seized for the king, and
leased to a refiner; the produce, however, being too inconsiderable,
it was soon abandoned.