REED, a parish in the hundred of ODSEY, county of HERTFORD, 1 mile (W.by N.) from Barkway, containing 214 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, consolidated, in 1800, with the vicarage of Barkway, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a square embattled tower of flint.