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FLITWICK, a parish in the hundred of REDBORNE-STOKE, county of BEDFORD, 2¾ miles (S. by W.) from Ampthill, containing 489 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.17., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The Duke of Bedford was patron in 182O. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A monastery, or cell to Dunstable priory, was erected here in 1170, by Philip de Sannerville.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Flitwick can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 4, Book 3 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, restored and enlarged in 1858, and further improved in 1867, under the direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect: it consists of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled tower containing 5 bells : on the north side is a Norman doorway; there are five memorial windows, one of which was erected in 1880 to the late Mr. S. Brooks, another was placed in 1885 by E. Jenkins esq. to his wife, and a third in 1898 to the Rev. F. Ashpitel, vicar, 1880.94; the oak reredos, erected in 1897, is a memorial to Mrs. J. H. Brooks : the organ was presented by the late Mrs. Brooks : the chancel was new-roofed in 1888, at the expense of Major Brooks J.P. The register dates from the year 1661.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
There is a Wesleyan chapel at Denel End.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for SS. Peter and Paul are available on microfiche for the period 1661-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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