EATON-SOCON, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD,
county of BEDFORD, 1½ mile (S.W.) from St. Neot's, containing,
with Wyboston, 2039 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the kings books
at £20.13.9. The Duke of Bedford was patron in 1808. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. Here was anciently a castle, the residence of a branch of the
family of Beauchamps; also a priory for Augustine friars, founded by Sir Oliver
Beauchamp and his son Hugh, the only remaining portion of which is the refractory,
now converted into stables. The river Ouse is navigable along the eastern
boundary of the parish. 
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