Turvey, Bedfordshire

[From Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831.]

TURVEY, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY, county of BEDFORD, 8 miles (W.N.W.) from Bedford, containing 882 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16, and in the patronage of D. C. Higgins, Esq. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains several fine monuments of the ancient and noble family of Mordaunt. There is a place of worship for Independents. The parish lies near the border of Buckinghamshire.