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This page contains the Extra-Parochial places for Bedfordshire
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"CHICKSANDS PRIORY, an extra-parochial place in the hundred of Clifton, in the county of Bedford, 6 miles south east of Ampthill, on the river Ivel. Pain de Beauchamp, about A.D. 1150, founded a priory here, of which the two quadrangles and cloisters are yet entire, and have been converted into a modern mansion, which contains the bed of James I., and a portrait by Sir Peter Lely of Oliver Cromwell."
"SHEFFORD HARDWICKS, (or Great and Little Hardwick), an extra parochial place in the hundred of Clifton, county Beds, 6 miles south west of Biggleswade. It is situated near the river Ivel, and adjoins the township of Shefford.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
by Colin Hinson ©2013
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- The 1851 Census Index for Chicksands can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 3, Book 5 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
- Church of England
- The parish is ecclesiastically annexed to Campton. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
- Church of England
- The parish record transcripts are available on microfiche from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
- A transcript of the Extraparochial parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- A transcript of the Extraparochial parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- A transcript of the Extraparochial parish entries from The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1866-9
- A transcript of the Extraparochial parish entries from Kelly's 1898 Directory of Bedfordshire