Steppingley, Bedfordshire Family History Guide
Steppingley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Parish church: St. Lawrence
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STEPPINGLEY, a parish, with a village, in Ampthill district, Beds; 3¼ miles S of Ampthill r. station. Post town, Ampthill. Acres, 1,060. Real property, £1,899. Pop., 365. Houses, 85. The manor be1ongs to the Duke of Bedford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £266. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1860, and is in the early decorated and later English styles.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Stepingley, a parish in the hund. of Redborne-Stoke, union of Ampthill, county of Bedford; 2¼ miles south-west of Ampthill. Living, a discharged rectory in the archd. of Bedford, formerly in the dio. of Lincoln, now in the dio. of Ely; rated at £6 16s. 3d.; gross income £289. Patron, in 1841, the Duke of Bedford. Charities, 10s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £205 7s. Acres 1,060. Houses 69. Pop., in 1801, 264; in 1831, 348.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Steppingley, 2 miles S.W. Ampthill. P. 377
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STEPPINGLEY (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Ampthill, hundred of Redbornestoke, county of Bedford, 2½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Ampthill; containing 377 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 1300 acres. The women and children are principally employed in making lace. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £6.16. 3., and in the gift of the Crown: the tithes were commuted for a corn-rent of £225, under a late inclosure act; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains 36 acres of land.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Ampthill
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Fleete
- Poor Law Union: Ampthill
- Hundred: Redbornestoke
- Province: Canterbury