Stotfold is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends, Calvinistic Baptists, Wesleyans Methodists, Baptists, Primitive Methodists
Table of Contents
- Adjacent Parishes
- Parish History
- Bankrupts
- Parish Registers
- Parish Records
- Directories
- Maps
- Administration
Adjacent Parishes
- Holwell
- Arlesey
- Astwick
- Caldecote, Hertfordshire
- Hinxworth, Hertfordshire
- Norton, Hertfordshire
- Radwell, Hertfordshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOTFOLD, a parish, with a large village, in Biggleswade district, Beds; 2¼ miles NW by W of Baldock r. station. It has a post-office under Baldock. Acres, 2,323. Real property, £6,100. Pop. in 1851, 1,395; in 1861, 2,071, of whom 484 were in the Beds, Herts, and Hunts lunatic asylum. Houses, 324. The property is subdivided.
The lunatic asylum is a recent, extensive and ornate edifice; and stands conspicuously on high ground.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £242. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is good.
There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed boys’ school, a national school, seven alms houses, and some other charities.
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
Stotfold, 4 m. S.E. Shefford. P. 1026
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STOTFOLD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Biggleswade, hundred of Clifton, county of Bedford, 2½ miles (N. W.) from Baldock; containing 1026 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5. 17. 1.; income, £185; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school is endowed with £20 per annum.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Pestell James, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, miller and oil cake dealer, Feb. 3, 1832.
Parish Registers
Stotfold Parish Registers 1559 – 1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Directories
Kelly’s Directory of the Wine and Spirit Trades, with which are included Brewers and Maltsters 1884
Marked thus * are Small Brewers who brew the beer they sell.
STOTFOLD, Baldock
Brewer
Flitton George
Source: The Post office directory of the brewers and maltsters [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of the wine and spirit trades, with which are included brewers and maltsters By Kelly’s directories, ltd. 1884
Maps
OS Grid Reference: TL2158337037 (all-numeric format: 521584 237038)
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Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Shefford
- Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
- Hundred: Clifton
- Province: Canterbury