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CHICKSANDS, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of CLIFTON, county of BEDFORD, 1½ mile (W.N.W.) from Shefford, containing 66 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 modem mansion.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
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]
The parish record transcripts are available on microfiche from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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