Chalgrave
| Chalgrave | |
| Bedfordshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL007382 |
| Location: | 51°55’36"N, -0°32’5"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 475 (2011 (inc. Fancott)[1]) |
| Post town: | Luton |
| Postcode: | LU4 |
| Dialling code: | 01525 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Central Bedfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South West Bedfordshire |
Chalgrave is a parish in the Manshead Hundred of Bedfordshire. The hamlets of Tebworth and Wingfield are in the west of the parish, with the church and manor in the east. Nearby places are Toddington (to the north), Chalton (to the east), Houghton Regis (to the south), and Hockliffe (to the west).
Chalgrave church and manor
The location now known as Chalgrave, just south of Toddington, was called East Coten (meaning "east cottages") in the year 926. Here a church and manor house were established on well-drained soil at the top of the hill in the 11th or 12th century. At the beginning of the 13th century the church was rebuilt, and the manorial complex was moved east and then north to what is now Chalgrave Manor Farm.[2]
The Icknield Way Path passes through the village past the church on its 110-mile journey from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk. The Icknield Way Trail, a multi-user route for walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists also passes through the village.
Tebworth
Tebworth is a small hamlet a mile west of the church, about 4½ miles east of Leighton Buzzard, a mile east of Hockliffe, and two miles south-west of Toddington.
Wingfield
Wingfield is a Hamlet almost a mile south-west of the church. Most of the houses are along Tebworth Road, which runs from Tebworth to the top of Lords Hill. Because of the location, there are a few well known people living in the Hamlet. Like Tebworth, it had developed as a settlement by the 13th century.[2]
References
- ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121776&c=Chalgrave&d=16&e=62&g=6403577&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1478434525790&enc=1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephen Coleman, Chalgrave, Bedfordshire County Council (Bedfordshire Parish Surveys, Historic Landscape and Archaeology, 6), 1986, ISBN 0-907041-75-2, pp. 7, 15, 17-22.
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