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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 Sales of Timber - 1878 & 1884
Absent Voters - 1925 Sale 1880 (Mr Eady dec'd)
Parish Meetings Sale - 1903
Railway Station 1910 Valuations - Introduction
1910 Valuations - Listing & Index
Church 1915 - Pretoria Cottages
Church and War Memorial Farm Census 1952
Meeting Houses
Religious Census - 1851 Baptists
Harvest Festival 1878 Miss Ward - organist 1916
Church - Newsclips Snippets from the Newspapers
Tower Restoration - 305th Memorial Youth Social Evening 1965
Patronal Festival 1914
Snowdrops (an interactive e-book feature) Methodists
Mothers' Union Methodists 1792-1793

Education Temperance
School Temperance
The School - Charity Report
Appointment of Trustees
School Log Book 1895/6 Celebrations & Events
Old Scholars' Association 1928 Feast 1880
School Report 1904 Concert 1889
Scholarships Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Show 1880
School Concert 1928 Village Hall events
School - Notes
School Gallery of Photographs
School 1948 Leisure, Sports & Clubs
School Christmas Party 1965 Cricket Club 1889
Cricket Match 1914
Commerce Cubs
Badger Licences Scouts
Whellan's Directory - 1874 WMC 1950s team
Kelly's Directory - 1910

People
Crime Baxter Family
Quarter Sessions Introduction Bird-Baxter Wedding 1948
Quarter Sessions Cases H E Desborough - 1889
Presentment - 1576 Rod Eady retires
Presentments 1693-1790
R D Page - DCM
Henry Newell - Arson in 1835 Miss Mary Helen Simpson M.B.E.
Albert Brittin - bonfire 1928 Louisa Shortland
Court Report 1882
Obituaries Index

Genealogy Airfield
Parish Registers Introduction Chelveston Airfield
Wills Index Chelveston Airfield - newsclips
Commonwealth Marriage 1656
Chelveston Airbase Events
Strays in Bedfordshire Flying Fortress Arrives 1956
Hospital Patients 1744-1766 Airfield - Engineering Group Badges (an interactive e-book feature)
Bastardy Case Airbase Memories (BGMA)
Census Introduction
Airbase memories - Frank Kekes
County Codes
Census 1841- 1901 War & Wartime
Inhabitants & Arms in 1590
Accidents Montagu Musters - early 1600's
Fatality 1910 - John Wyldes
Able Bodied Men 1638
Mr W Gross 1882 Civil War Money Loaned to Parliament

Militia Lists
Health & Welfare War Memorial & Church
Proposed Sewer 1898 Armistice Service 1928
Diphtheria at Caldicott - 1919 Exercise Valentine 1943
Civil Defence 1944
Reading Room 305th Bomb Group - 50th Anniversary
Raising Funds 1881 305th Bomb Group Memorial - 2007

305th Bomb Group return 1992
Notes from the Newspapers
Snippets G I's & Brides
Entertainment 1879 & 1881

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