MARSTON-MORETAINE, a parish in the hundred
of REDBORNESTOKE, county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (N.Wt)
from Ampthill, containing 899 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £33.17 35»
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows ot ZHJohn's
College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to
St.Mary, is in the later style of English architecture:
the tower is detached. There is a place of worship lor
Wesleyan Methodists.