Status: Extra-parochial
Parish church:
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Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Cople
Parish History
Cople, The Smithy
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COPLE, a parish in the district and county of Bedford; on an affluent of the river Ouse, 1½ mile E of Cardington r. station, and 3½ ESE of Bedford. Post town, Bedford. Acres, 2,109. Real property, £3,379. Pop., 565. Houses, 110. Cople Hall was the seat of the late Earl of Ludlow. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £215. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is later English and good.
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
Cople, 4½ m. S.E. Bedford. P. 551.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
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
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Bedford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Bedford
- Poor Law Union: Bedford
- Hundred: Wixamtree
- Province: Canterbury