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Chelveston-cum-Caldecott

The Church between the village of Chelveston and the hamlet of Caldecott
The public house on the main road
The Church
The Star & Garter Public House

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Chelveston village, together with its hamlet neighbour Caldecott, is a small community bounded by Higham Ferrers to the west, Newton Bromswold to the south, by Stanwick to the north and by Yelden to the east.

The church and the old village school both sit up on the hill above Chelveston, on the road to Caldecott, the latter being three farms and a cluster of cottages. Chelveston old village sits on the main road between Higham Ferrers and Kimbolton, with several new houses spreading out towards the old, once isolated, farms around the village.

The Star and Garter public house stands alongside the main road and on the grass verge close by, is a newly erected memorial to the 305th Bombardment Group of the United States Air Force, who were stationed at the RAF Base, close to the village, during WWII.


History Land, Property & Taxation
Parish History by Bridges 1791 Lay Subsidy - 1543
Parish Officers 1890 Freeholders - 1605
Electoral Roll - 1890 Window Tax - 1750
Electoral Roll - 1918 Hearth Tax
Absent Voters - 1918 Land Tax - 1801
Absent Voters - 1919 Gamekeepers
Electoral Roll - 1925 (Spring Register) & Introduction Sale of Timber - 1878
Absent Voters - 1925 Sale 1880 (Mr Eady dec'd)
Parish Meeting Sale - 1903
1910 Valuations - Introduction
1910 Valuations - Listing & Index
1915 - Pretoria Cottages
Farm Census 1952

Education Church
The School - Charity Report Meeting Houses
Appointment of Trustees Religious Census - 1851
School Log Book 1895/6 Harvest Festival 1878
Old Scholars' Association 1928 Church - Newsclips
School Report 1904 Tower Restoration - 305th Memorial
Scholarship 1915 Patronal Festival 1914
School - Notes Church Cross - 1916
School Concert 1928 Snowdrops (an interactive e-book feature)
School Christmas Party 1965 Mothers' Union

Celebrations & Events Baptists
Feast 1880 Miss Ward - organist 1916
Concert 1889 Snippets from the Newspapers
Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Show 1880 Youth Social Evening 1965

Commerce Methodists
Badger Licences Methodists 1792-1793
Whellan's Directory - 1874
Kelly's Directory - 1910
Temperance
Temperance

Crime Notes from the newspapers
Quarter Sessions Introduction Snippets
Quarter Sessions Cases Entertainment 1879 & 1881
Presentment - 1576
Presentments 1693-1790 Sports & Clubs
Henry Newell - Arson in 1835 Cricket Club 1889
Albert Brittin - bonfire 1928 Cricket Match 1914
Court Report 1882

People Health & Welfare
H E Desborough - 1889 Proposed Sewer 1898
R D Page - DCM Diphtheria at Caldicott - 1919
Baxter Family
Bird-Baxter Wedding 1948 Accidents
Louisa Shortland Fatality 1910 - John Wyldes
Mr W Gross 1882

Genealogy Air-Field
Parish Registers Introduction Chelveston Airfield
Wills Index Chelveston Air Base Events
Commonwealth Marriage 1656 Flying Fortress Arrives 1956
Strays in Bedfordshire Airfield - Engineering Group Badges (an interactive e-book feature)
Hospital Patients 1744-1766
Bastardy Case
Census Introduction War & Wartime
County Codes Arms in 1590
Census 1841 Montagu Musters - early 1600's
Census 1851 Able Bodied Men 1638
Census 1861 Civil War Money Loaned to Parliament
Census 1871 Militia Lists
Census 1881 Armistice Service 1928
Census 1891 Exercise Valentine 1943
Census 1901 Civil Defence 1944
305th Bomb Group - 50th Anniversary
Reading Room 305th Bomb Group Memorial - 2007
Raising Funds 1881 305th Bomb Group return 1992
G I's & Brides

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