. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CLOPHILL running north and south from Bedford to Luton. This road also forms the boundary of the parish on that side, dividing it from Maulden, to which the west half of the village belongs. Near the west boundary of the parish is Beadlow Farm, on the site of the small Benedictine priory of Beaulieu, a cell of St. Albans Abbey. The farm buildings are compara- tively modern and stand close to the road, but in the meadow to the east the broken ground and lines of banks and ditches mark the site of the priory building
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. FLITT HUNDRED CLOPHILL running north and south from Bedford to Luton. This road also forms the boundary of the parish on that side, dividing it from Maulden, to which the west half of the village belongs. Near the west boundary of the parish is Beadlow Farm, on the site of the small Benedictine priory of Beaulieu, a cell of St. Albans Abbey. The farm buildings are compara- tively modern and stand close to the road, but in the meadow to the east the broken ground and lines of banks and ditches mark the site of the priory buildings. From time to time foundations of walls have been traced and destroyed by the occupants of the farm, some glazed floor tiles and a thirteenth-century base having been found, together with part of a fourteenth- century coflin-lid, still preserved on the farm. The fine earthwork of Cainhoe Castle, already described,'" is in the south of the parish, and on rising ground a short distance to the south is Cainhoe Farm, an H-shaped house, evidently of some an- tiquity, though showing little old detail at the present day. In one of the first-floor rooms is some good panelling. With the site of the manor of Cainhoe were granted lands bearing the following place-names in the six- teenth century : Plumtree Hedge, Cantywede, and Inlandes' Spythell,' and in 1354 the names Foulhole, Pidley Wood are found ; in 1628 Pidley Wood and Howgrove.' The Inclosure Act for this parish, passed in 1808, is private, and has not been printed.* The MJNOR OF CLOPHILL AND CAINHOE was held of the honour or barony of Cainhoe' until the reign of Henry VIII, when it was annexed to the honour of Ampthill,^ and granted out by the king from time to time : the overlordship is referred to as late as 1628,' but as there is no further mention, the right probably fell into abeyance.' On the partition of the Cainhoe barony in 1233' the manor of Clophill and Cainhoe was not divided, but fell to the inheritance of Is
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