GENUKI Home page    Genuki Home Page GENUKI
Homepage		   Genuki Contents GenUKI
Contents		     Bedfordshire Bedfordshire

This page contains the Extra-Parochial places for Bedfordshire

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835]
(unless otherwise stated)

"CHICKSANDS, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of CLIFTON, county of BEDFORD, 1§ mile (W. N, W.) from Shefford, containing 56 inhabitants. A priory for canons-and nuns of the rule of St. Gilbert of Sempringham was founded, in 1150, by Pain de Beauchamp, and the Lady Roas, his wife; the two quadrangles, with the cloisters, remain entire, and have been converted into a modern mansion."

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]

Valid HTML 4.01! This page is copyright. Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in the conditions of use.
Web-page generated by "DB2html" data-base extraction software ©CRH 2010
If you find an error (small or large) in the text or a bad link, please drop me a line via my error reporting form.

[Last updated at 11.29 on Wednesday, 22 February 2012, by Colin Hinson. ©2009]