TEMPSFORD, a parish in the hundred of BIGGLESWADE,
county of BEDFORD, 6 miles (N. N. W.)
from Biggleswade, containing 577 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £24,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place of worship for.
Wesleyan Methodists. The village is situated on the
river Ivel, which is navigable through the parish, and
falls into the Ouse as it passes along the western
boundary. This is a place of great antiquity; it was
occupied by the Danes before 921, when they were expelled
by the Saxons, but they returned in 1010, and
reduced it to ashes.