WESTONING, a parish, with a village, in Ampthill district, Beds; 2 miles WNW of Haslington r. station, and 3¾ S by W of Ampthill. It has a postal-pillar box under Woburn. Acres, 1,715. Real property, £3,732. Pop., 784. Houses, 162. The manor, with W. Manor House, belongs to the Rev. J. W.Campion. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £260.* Patron, the Rev. J. W.Campion. The church was restored in 1859. There are a national school and charities £38.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))