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ROXTON, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD, county of BEDFORD, 4¾ miles (S.W. by S.) from St. Neot's, containing 537 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Great Barford, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Independents. The river Ouse bounds the parish on the east.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
CHAWSTON formerly CHALVERSTONE, is a hamlet, with an ancient manor house, surrounded by a moat, and was anciently the residence of Roger Hunt, whose tomb is noticed above.
COLESDEN is a hamlet about a mile north-west.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
The 1851 Census Index for Roxton can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 2, Book 3 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice, originally Decorated, but much altered in the Perpendicular period, and consists of chancel, nave of three bays with south aisle and an embattled western tower of Late Decorated character, containing 3 bells: the chancel retains a piscina and locker, and once had a chapel or south aisle, the arches of the arcade of which are now built in to the south wall of the chancel: part of the screen remains, the lower panels being painted and gilt, with figures; on the south side of the chancel is an altar tomb to Roger Hunt, Speaker of the Parliament 8 Hen. V. (1420-I), and again in 1433, and appointed a baron of the Exchequer in 1438; on the north side of the church is a Perpendicular arched recess, with the recumbent effigy of a female on a low slab : a brass inscribed to John Fage of Chalverstone, died 1400, has been recovered and placed in the chancel: the body of the church was restored in 1887 and 1890, at a cost of £320, under the direction of Mr. W. M. Fawcett architect, of Cambridge, and in 1893 the tower was repaired and a peal of 5 bells hung, at a cost of £260. The register dates from the year 1684.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
Here is a Congregational chapel.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St. Mary are available on microfiche for the period 1684-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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