Chelveston
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Chelveston is a small village in North Northamptonshire. It is about east of Higham Ferrers and east of Wellingborough on the B645 (former A45 road) from Higham Ferrers to St Neots. To the south is the hamlet of Caldecott and the settlement of Chelston Rise which together comprise the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott. The population is now included in the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wellingborough
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Chelveston cum Caldecott
- Population
- 541
- Image
- Chelveston-cum-Caldecott church - geograph.org.uk - 67368.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01933
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- Commons category
- Chelveston
- postal code
- NN9
- OS grid reference
- SP9972
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Parish Church
- Village Hall
- Heritage assets
- RAF Chelveston
- Demography
- Chelston Rise
- Nearby Settlements
- References
- External links
Chelveston is a small village in North Northamptonshire. It is about east of Higham Ferrers and east of Wellingborough on the B645 (former A45 road) from Higham Ferrers to St Neots. To the south is the hamlet of Caldecott and the settlement of Chelston Rise which together comprise the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott. The population is now included in the civil parish of Chelveston cum Caldecott.
==History== The villages name means 'Ceolwulfs farm/settlement'. At the time of the Domesday Book, 1086, Chelveston came under the manor of Higham Ferrers and later was awarded by the crown to different noble families. In the 1550s the manor of Chelveston was acquired by the Ekins family, who passed it down by inheritance until 1694.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chelveston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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