Community archives

Welcome to our Community Archives section which is intended to give a brief overview of the history of each Bedfordshire settlement.

We hope, eventually, to have a page for each town, village or hamlet in the county and we will be regularly adding pages. Although aimed at residents and budding local historians, we hope that the pages will also be of interest to all Lower Schools including as they do, typically, parts of the 25 inches to the mile Ordnance Survey maps between the 1880s and 1920s, a section from the parish inclosure map or tithe apportionment map, and photographs. We will also include historical details of public houses and beerhouses, places of worship, schools and buildings and people of interest unique to the particular place.

Aley Green Pages|

Aspley Guise Pages|

Aspley Heath Pages|

Battlesden Pages|

Bletsoe Pages|

Blunham Pages|

Bromham Pages|

Broom Pages|

Caddington Pages|

Cardington Pages|

Chalton (Mogerhanger) Pages|

Chaul End Pages|

Chawston Pages|

Clifton Pages|

Clophill Pages|

Colesden Page|

Colmworth Pages|

Cople Pages|

Elstow Pages|

Hulcote Pages|

Husborne Crawley Pages|

Ickwell Pages|

Ireland and Rowney Pages|

Kempston Pages|

Kempston Hardwick Pages|

Kempston Rural Pages|

Lower Caldecote Pages|

Milton Bryan Pages|

Mogerhanger Pages|

Northill Pages|

Northill Smaller Hamlets Pages|

Old Warden Pages|

Pepperstock Pages|

Potsgrove Pages|

Potton Pages|

Ridgmont Pages|

Roxton Pages|

Salford Pages|

Shefford Pages|

Slip End Pages|

Southill Pages|

Stagsden Pages|

Stanford Pages|

Stewartby Pages|

Upper Caldecote Pages|

Willington Pages|

Woburn Pages|

Woodside Pages|

Wootton Pages|

Wyboston Pages|

Bedfordshire Libraries also have details about places in Bedfordshire on their Local Information| pages