Stanbridge, Bedfordshire Family History Guide
Stanbridge is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Bedfordshire, created in 1735 from a chapelry in Leighton Buzzard Ancient Parish.
Status: Ecclesiastical Parish
Alternative names: Standbridge
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560; see also Leighton Buzzard
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STANBRIDGE, a chapelry in Leighton-Buzzard parish, Beds; 1 mile NNW of Stanbridgeford r. station, and 3 ESE of Leighton-Buzzard. Post town, Leighton-Buzzard. Acres, 1,400. Real property, £2,853. Pop., 554. Houses, 122. Many of the inhabitants are employed in straw-plait working. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Leighton-Buzzard. The church is good; and there are two Wesleyan chapels, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Standbridge, 2 miles S. E. Leighton-Buzzard. P. 519
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Registers
Stanbridge Parish Registers 1560-1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Bedfordshire Historical Directories
Bedfordshire Historical Directories
Maps
OS Grid Reference: SP9635224204 (all-numeric format: 496352 224205)
Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Leighton Buzzard
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Leighton Buzzard
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – Lincoln, Post 1845 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1852 – None, Post – 1851 – Dunstable
- Poor Law Union: Leighton Buzzard
- Hundred: Manshead
- Province: Canterbury