STAGSDEN, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY,
county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bedford,
containing 542 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 8, endowed
with £200 royal bounty. Lord Hampden was patron
in 1811. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard.