AMPTHILL, a market town in the hundred of Redbourne Stoke, in the county of Bedford. It is pleasantly situated in a valley between two gentle elevations. A Gothic cross in the centre of the town, to the memory of Catherine of Arragon, queen of Henry VIII. who resided here, was erected in the year 1774, by the late earl of Upper Ossory, the possessor of the house which she
inhabited, and who bequeathed it to Lord Holland. The market is on Saturday. It is 43 miles from London. The population in 1801 was 1234; in 1811, 1277; and in 1821, 1527.