Sundon (St. Mary)
SUNDON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Luton, hundred of Flitt, county of Bedford, 4¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Luton; containing 449 inhabitants. It comprises 2071a. 15p., of which about 250 acres are meadow and pasture, 66 woodland, and the remainder arable; the soil is clay, alternated with chalk and gravel. A market and a fair were formerly held, by charter granted in 1316. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 6. 8.; net income, £83; patron and impropriator, Sir G. P. Turner, Bart.: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1769. The church is partly in the decorated style.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.