MEPPERSHALL, a parish in the hundred of CLIFTON,
county of BEDFORD, l- mile (S.) from Shefford,
containing 397 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £22, and in the patronage
of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. From
thirty to forty children are educated by a schoolmistress
for £15 per annum, arising from Emery's charity, at
Ampthill. A small, part of this parish is locally in a
detached portion of the county of Hertford.