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Imperial Gazatteer of England & Wales, 1866-9

Keysoe, Bedfordshire

KEYSOE, a village and a parish in the district and county of Bedford. The village stands 4 miles SSW of Kimbolton, and 5½ ENE of Sharnbrook r. station; was anciently called Caissot; is a very scattered place, connected at the ends with Keysoe-Row and Brook-End; and has a post-office under St. Neots. The parish comprises 3,564 acres. Real property, £4,023. Pop., 867. Houses, 186. The property is subdivided. The principal manor belongs to John S. Crawley, Esq. A broken piece of ground in the NE is thought to have been the site of a Roman0-British town. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £225.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is decorated and later English, in good condition; consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with W tower and spire; and contains an early English font and a piscina. There are Baptist chapels at Keysoe-Row and Brook-End, and a national school.