Sundon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1569
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist, Baptist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SUNDON, a parish in Luton district, Beds; 4 miles NE of Dunstable r. station. It has a postal pillar-box under Dunstable. Acres, 2,160. Real property, £2,631. Pop., 450. Houses, 100. Most of the land belongs to the executors of Sir E. H. Turner, Bart. The living is a vicarage, united with Streatley, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £163. Patrons, the Trustees of Sir E. H. Turner, Bart. The church is early English. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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
Sundon, 4 miles N. W. Luton. P. 449
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SUNDON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Luton, hundred of Flitt, county of Bedford, 4¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Luton; containing 449 inhabitants.
It comprises 2071a. 15p., of which about 250 acres are meadow and pasture, 66 woodland, and the remainder arable; the soil is clay, alternated with chalk and gravel. A market and a fair were formerly held, by charter granted in 1316.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 6. 8.; net income, £83; patron and impropriator, Sir G. P. Turner, Bart.: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1769. The church is partly in the decorated style.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Sundon Parish Registers 1569-1812
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.
UPPER SUNDON, Dunstable
Ale & Porter Merchant & Bottler
Underwood Albert
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: TL0447727848 (all-numeric format: 504478 227849)
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Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Luton
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Dunstable
- Poor Law Union: Luton
- Hundred: Flitt
- Province: Canterbury