Ridgmont (All Saints)
RIDGMONT (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Woburn, hundred of Redbornestoke, county of Bedford, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Woburn; containing 964 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Segenhoe, valued in the king's books at £9; net income, £84; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Bedford. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, in 1796. The church of Ridgmont has been enlarged: that at Segenhoe was long since demolished. There is a place of worship for Baptists.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.