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Chicksands
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Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It gives its name to MOD Chicksands, a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the Chicksands Priory estate. The village is on the River Flit and lies immediately west of the town of Shefford. At the 2021 census the Chicksands built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics (which excludes part of the MOD Chicksands base) had a population of 731. The wider parish of Campton and Chicksands, which also includes the village of Campton, had
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Place details
- Locality
- Campton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,396
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Chicksands
- UK place.static_image_name
- Mid Beds District Council Offices - geograph.org.uk - 382472.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Priory House, headquarters of Central Bedfordshire Council
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.civil_parish
- Campton and Chicksands
- UK place.unitary_england
- Central Bedfordshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Bedfordshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Mid Bedfordshire
- UK place.population
- 731
- UK place.population_ref
- (Built up area, 2021)
- UK place.post_town
- SHEFFORD
- UK place.postcode_district
- SG17
- UK place.postcode_area
- SG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01462
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL124389
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- chicksandcommunity.co.uk
- Image
- Mid Beds District Council Offices - geograph.org.uk - 382472.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01462
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- Commons category
- Chicksands
- postal code
- SG17
- OS grid reference
- TL124389
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Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It gives its name to MOD Chicksands, a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the Chicksands Priory estate. The village is on the River Flit and lies immediately west of the town of Shefford. At the 2021 census the Chicksands built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics (which excludes part of the MOD Chicksands base) had a population of 731. The wider parish of Campton and Chicksands, which also includes the village of Campton, had a population of 1,895.
== History == Chicksands appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is listed under the variations Chichesana and Chichesane. William de Cairon was then the tenant of the Bishop of Lincoln, along with three freemen and Walter, holding from Azelina, wife of Ralph Tailbois, as part of her dowry. The place-name itself derives from Old English, meaning “Cicca’s sands,” with Cicca being a personal name and sands referring to the sandy soil of the district.
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