Astwick / Asswyk / Estewike / Estuuiche / Estwiche

There are four entries for this Astwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2138/astwick/] [accessed 10 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "Astwick was originally a parochial chapel, but by 1291 had become a parish church. [...] The church of St. Guthlac [...] is evidently only a fragment of a larger building, but the process by which it has arrived at its present plan is somewhat obscure. [...] The pulpit is of eighteenth-century date, with reading-desk and clerk's seat, and the font is plastered and of no interest." The British Listed Buildings database entry for this church [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-37799-church-of-saint-guthlac-astwick] [accessed 26 April 2012] reports: "Octagonal font without pedestal." [NB: we have no information on the date of the "plastered" font noted in the VCH and the BLB].