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Campton, Bedfordshire

Village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England

Summary

Village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
static_image_name	Campton Church.jpg
static_image_caption	Campton church
official_name	Campton
civil_parish	Campton and Chicksands
unitary_england	Central Bedfordshire
lieutenancy_england	Bedfordshire
region	East of England
constituency_westminster	Hitchin
post_town	SHEFFORD
postcode_district	SG17
postcode_area	SG
dial_code	01462
os_grid_reference	TL0523

Campton is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is about 9 mi south of Bedford, and is about 9 mi north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the River Ivel. It is just to the west of Shefford. The 13th century Church of All Saints is in the centre of the village.

History

Campton is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The entry reads: * Chambeltone: Ralph de Lanquetot from Walter Giffard; Fulbert from Willian d'Eu; Thurstan.* The name Campton is derived from a British stream name similar to the name Camel in Cornwall.

Campton was an ancient parish in the Clifton Hundred of Bedfordshire. The parish historically included Shefford, which had its own chapel of ease from at least the 15th century. Parish functions under the poor laws from the 17th century onwards were administered separately for the chapelry of Shefford and the rest of Campton parish. As such, Shefford and Campton became separate civil parishes in 1866 when the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws. Shefford remained part of the ecclesiastical parish of Campton until 1903.

In 1985 the civil parish of Campton was merged with the neighbouring parish of Chicksands to become a new parish called Campton and Chicksands. At the 1981 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Campton had a population of 1391.

Governance

Campton is in the Hitchin parliamentary constituency and the elected member is Alistair Strathern of the Labour Party.

Education

It is in the catchment zone for Robert Bloomfield Academy. It is also in the catchment zone for Samuel Whitbread Academy, which has an upper school and sixth form.

References

"Campton & Chicksands - Home Page".
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"Campton Domesday Book".
(1960). "The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names". Clarendon Press.
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(1908). "A History of the County of Bedfordshire". Victoria County History.
(1979). "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume I, Southern England". Royal Historical Society.
"Shefford Township / Civil Parish". GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth.
{{London Gazette. (23 October 1903)
"Biggleswade Registration District". UKBMD.
"Bedfordshire population figures 1801 – 2011". Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service Archives.
"Admission Arrangements September 2025". Bedfordshire Schools Trust.
"Admission Arrangements September 2025". Bedfordshire Schools Trust.

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