WILLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WIXAMTREE,
county of BEDFORD, 4 miles (E.) from Bedford,
containing 286 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 17-j and in
the patronage of the Duke of Bedford. The church,
dedicated to St. Lawrence, is principally in the later
style of English architecture, and contains some old
monuments to the Gostwicke family. The navigable
river Ouse bounds the parish on the north.