Milton Ernest - General History

Melville's Directory 1867 (Extract)

MILTON ERNEST is a village and parish, distant 5 miles northwest from Bedford; in the hundred of Stodden, and diocese of Ely. The population in 1851 was 445, and in 1861 it was 484. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, is a neat stone structure, with tower and five bells. The living is a vicarage, in the incumbency of the Rev. C. C. B. Pownall, M.A. Here are six Almshouses, endowed with property amounting to £65 per annum; there is also a Wesleyan Chapel, National and Sunday Schools.

Letters through Bedford.

Brown, Susanna
Covington, Joseph, shoeing smith
Crisp, Benjamin, farmer
Gibbins, William, brewer, maltster, and farmer
Lord, George, parish clerk
Makham, George, wheelwright
Newall, Edward, baker
Pownall, Rev. Charles Colyear Beaty, M.A., Vicarage
Russell, John Thomas, Swan inn
Russell, Sophia, shopkeeper
Salisbury, W. C. postmaster

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