Sundon

• The 1851 Census Index for Sundon can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 7, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sundon

• Church of England
  • The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consisting of Perpendicular chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south chapel or transept and a western tower containing one bell: the font is Early English, and there is an interesting Decorated chest, and on the south door a lock of the same date: there are stone seats round the north aisle, and in part round the south aisle: there are a few marble tablets, inscribed to Catherine Faldo, 1697; Thomas Cheyne esq. 1717; Elizabeth Cheyne, 1700; and Thomas Cheyne, 1677-8 : during some repairs to the floor of the south transept an arched vault was discovered, containing two velvet-covered coffins, respectively inscribed, on silver plates, to the Right Hon. William Clayton, Baron Sundon, of Ardagh, and M.P. for St. Mawes, who died April 29, 1752; and to Lady Charlotte, his wife, who died Jan. 1, 1741: in 1897 these plates were erected as mural tablets: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1582. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
• Non-conformist
  • Here are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

• Church of England
  • The parish record transcripts for St. Mary, are available on microfiche for the period 1582-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• LOWER SUNDON consists of the vicarage, a handsome house in the Elizabethan style, two farm-houses and a few cottages. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

• A transcript of the Sundon parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Sundon parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Sundon parish entries from The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1866-9

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL046273 (Lat/Lon: 51.934389, -0.479975), Sundon which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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• The BFHS Project in conjunction with Roll of Honour contains the Sundon Village War Memorial and Sundon Cement & Lime Works War Memorial transcriptions for WW1 and WW2 with details of the men found on them.