Clophill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1567
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include:
- Primitive Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Clophill
Historical Descriptions
Clophill, Bedfordshire c.1900 
Clophill, The Green 
Clophill, Bedfordshire c.1900
Clophill
Imperial Gazetteer 1870.
Clophill, a parish in Ampthill district, Beds; on the river Ivel, 3 1/2 miles W. of Shefford r. Station, and 4 E. of Ampthill
Source: Imperial Gazetteer 1870.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Clophill, 2 m. N.E. Selsoe. P. 1066
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CLOPHILL (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Amphill, hundred of Flitt, county of Bedford, 1 mile (N. by E.) from Silsoe; containing 1066 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 2340 acres, of which about 1400 are arable, and 700 pasture. The soil is light and sandy, with some portions of gravel, clay, and moorland; the surface is rather hilly, and the lower grounds are subject to inundation from the river Ivel, which flows through the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12; net income, £522; patron, Earl de Grey. The tithes have been commuted for £239, and the glebe contains 70 acres, with a glebehouse. The church stands upon an eminence at some distance from the village. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. At Cainhoe are vestiges of the moated castle of the barons d’Albini: the hill on which it stood is high and steep, and overgrown with coppice-wood. Here was also a religious house, probably a cell to St. Alban’s Abbey.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Parish Records
Bedfordshire Archives & Family History Groups
Bedfordshire Family History Society
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
Bedfordshire
England, Bedfordshire Parish Registers, 1538-1983
Bedfordshire County Cemetery Records
Bedfordshire Quarter Session Rolls 1714-1832
Bedfordshire 1926 Valuation Maps
Bedfordshire Police Roll of Honour
Administration
- 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: Flitt
- Province: Canterbury
