Ridgmont is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Status: Ancient Parish
Alternative names: Segenhoe
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1539
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Calvinist Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RIDGMONT, a village and a parish in Woburn district, Beds. The village stands 1 mile SSE of a station of its own name on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, and 2¾ N E of Woburn; and has a post-office under Woburn.
The parish comprises 2,248 acres. Real property, £2,814. Pop., 1,029. Houses, 217. The manor and most of the land belong to the Duke of Bedford.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £233. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The new church was built in 1855; and is in the decorated English style, with tower and spire. The old church is now used only for burials.
There are a large Baptist chapel, a handsome Wesleyan chapel, a national school, a British school, and charities £70.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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: Redbornestoke
Province: Canterbury
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