[From Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831.]
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EATON (BRAY), a parish in the hundred of MANSHEAD, county or BEDFORD, 3½ miles (W. by S.) from Dunstable, containing 816 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12.16.3., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here was anciently a castle, built by Cantilupe, Baron of Abergavenny, in 1221, of which nothing remains.
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Eaton Bray St Mary the Virgin