Husborne Crawley Bedfordshire Family History Guide

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Husborne Crawley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

Alternative names: Crawley Husborne, Husborn Crawley, Crawelai (xi cent.); Husseburne Crawel (xiii cent.).

Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene / St James

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

The registers are in four books:—(1) all entries 1558 to 1678; (2) continues marriages to 1754 and baptisms and burials to 1765; (3) has marriages 1754 to 1813; (4) baptisms and burials 1765 to 1812.

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Husborne Crawley Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register baptisms.

Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1558-1875

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register marriages and banns.

Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1558-1885

Death and Burial Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register deaths and burials.

Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire Burials, 1947-1947

London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.

Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Glenester, Thomas, yeoman, and Joane Brotherton, spinster, of City of London, daughter of Robert Brotherton, late of Crawley, co. Beds, ” laniones,” deceased, gen. lic, 23 May, 1587. B.

Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887

Quarter Sessions Rolls

The following have been extracted from the Notes & Extracts from the Bedfordshire County Records comprised in the Quarter Sessions Rolls from 1714 to 1832 compiled by Messrs. Hardy & Page, Record Agents

1732 25th October. Recognizance of Savage Elderton, of Husborn Crawley, gentleman, for his appearance to answer for keeping a gun and two spaniel dogs for the destruction of game, he not being qualified, as it is apprehended, according to law.

Parish History

The parish of Husborne Crawley covers an area of 1,610½ acres, of which 413½ are arable land, 862¾ permanent grass and 202 woods and plantations.  The chief industry is agriculture, and the soil, which is light sand with parts of heavy Oxford clay on a gravel subsoil, yields crops of wheat, barley and beans.

The southern portion of the parish is within the bounds of Woburn Park, including the parks known as Butt Close, Deane Hills, Sandyplane Plantation, Brickground Plantation and the Deer Park. The ground varies from 250 ft. to 350 ft. above the ordnance datum, though a small part of the Deer Park is over 400 ft. high.

The village lies between Ridgmont and Woburn, on the high road which skirts Woburn Park. There are two or three examples of half-timber and thatched cottages, but generally speaking the village is modern. The mill has disappeared, and its memory only survives in the name of Crawley Mill Farm, which now forms a portion of the Woburn Experimental Farm. The church is situated about half a mile to the north of the village, on the road to Aspley Guise. This portion of the village is known as Church End, and consists of several farms and cottages, with a Methodist chapel. By the cross roads at this spot is the entrance to the grounds of Crawley House, through which a right of way exists to Aspley Guise. The house is an unpretending Georgian structure. The present owner is Mrs. Ellis Wynter, the representative of the Orlebar family, who resides there. The grounds cover about 100 acres, and include Crawley Park Farm.

Opposite the entrance to the park is the Manor Farm, past which a road leads north, leaving Crawley Hall on the west. It is a modest Georgian building, formerly known as Crawley Farm, and is rented by Mrs. Bowen from the Duke of Bedford.

The open country in the north of the parish is farmed by the Charity and Redfield Farms, and is crossed by the Bedford branch of the London and North-Western Railway, on which Ridgmont station in this parish is situated.

Source: Extracted from Victoria County History of Bedford: Volume  1912.

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CRAWLEY-HUSBORNE, a parish in Woburn district, Beds; on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, ¾ mile SW of Ridgmount r. station, and 1¾ NNE of Woburn. Post town, Woburn. Acres, 1,520. Real property, £2,593. Pop., 535. Houses, 122. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £46. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church is good. Charities, £112.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Historical Maps

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Administration

  • County: Bedfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Woburn
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Fleete
  • Poor Law Union: Woburn
  • Hundred: Manshead
  • Province: Canterbury