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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 & Introduction Sales
Absent Voters - 1925 1910 Valuations - Introduction
Parish Meetings 1910 Valuations - Listing & Index
Railway Station 1915 - Pretoria Cottages
Farm Census 1952
Village Green

Church Baptists
Church and War Memorial Miss Ward - organist 1916
Meeting Houses
Snippets from the Newspapers
Religious Census - 1851 Youth Social Evening 1965
Harvest Festival 1878
Church - Newsclips Methodists
Tower Restoration - 305th Memorial Methodists 1792-1793
Patronal Festival 1914
Snowdrops (an interactive e-book feature) Temperance
Mothers' Union Temperance
Magazine February 1896

Education Celebrations & Events
School - mainpage Feast 1880
The School - Charity Report Concert 1889
Appointment of Trustees Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Show 1880
School Log Book 1895/6 Village Hall events
Old Scholars' Association 1928
School Gallery of Photographs Leisure, Sports & Clubs
Cricket Club 1889
Commerce Cricket Match 1914
Badger Licences Cubs
Whellan's Directory - 1874 Scouts
Kelly's Directory - 1910 Working Men's Club
Crime People
Quarter Sessions Introduction Index (villages)
Quarter Sessions Cases Baxter Family
Presentment - 1576 Bird-Baxter Wedding 1948
Presentments 1693-1790
H E Desborough - 1889
Henry Newell - Arson in 1835 Rod Eady retires
Albert Brittin - bonfire 1928 Miss Mary Helen Simpson M.B.E.
Court Reports Louisa Shortland
Obituaries Index (villages)
Genealogy
Village Memories
Parish Registers Introduction
Wills Index Airfield
Commonwealth Marriage 1656
Chelveston Airfield
Strays in Bedfordshire
Chelveston Airfield - newsclips
Hospital Patients 1744-1766 Chelveston Airbase Events
Bastardy Case Flying Fortress Arrives 1956
Census 1841- 1901 Airfield - Engineering Group Badges (an interactive e-book feature)
Removal Order - Peter Robins Airbase Memories (BGMA)

Airbase memories - Frank Kekes

Accidents War & Wartime
Index of Accidents (villages) Inhabitants & Arms in 1590

Montagu Musters - early 1600's
Fires Able Bodied Men 1638
Index of Fires (villages)
Civil War Money Loaned to Parliament
Militia Lists
Belgian Refugees
Health & Welfare War Memorial & Church
Proposed Sewer 1898 Armistice Service 1928
Diphtheria at Caldicott - 1919 Exercise Valentine 1943
Civil Defence 1944
R D Page - DCM
Notes from the Newspapers 305th Bomb Group - 50th Anniversary
Newsclips - mainpage 305th Bomb Group Memorial - 2007

305th Bomb Group return 1992
Reading Room
Raising Funds 1881
G I's & Brides

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