STEVINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY,
county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Bedford,
containing 485 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£12. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Duke of Bedford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.