| Name | Mid Bedfordshire District |
| Type | District municipality |
| Coordinates | 52.14°N 0.47°W |
| Located in | Bedfordshire, England (1974 - 2009) |
| See also | Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England | urban district from which it was formed in 1974 | | Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England | urban district from which it was formed in 1974 | | Sandy, Bedfordshire, England | urban district from which it was formed in 1974 | | Ampthill Rural, Bedfordshire, England | rural district from which it was formed in 1974 | | Biggleswade Rural, Bedfordshire, England | rural district from which it was formed in 1974 | | Central Bedfordshire District, Bedfordshire, England | district municipality and unitary authority which replaced it in 2009 |
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
The Mid Bedfordshire District was, from 1974 to 2009, a non-metropolitan local government district in Bedfordshire, England.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reorganisation of local authorities in England and Wales carried out under the Local Government Act 1972. Mid Bedfordshire was formed by the amalgamation of five districts:
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It covered an area of about 125,000 acres and its population grew from just under 95,000 when it was created to over 118,000 by 2007.
(NOTE: Wikipedia has quoted the same statistics for South Bedfordshire District. One of them may be incorrect.)
In 2009 Mid Bedfordshire joined with the South Bedfordshire District to form a unitary authority named Central Bedfordshire.
Research tips
- The website British History Online provides three chapters of the Victoria County History Series on Bedfordshire. The first covers the religious houses of the county; the second and third provides articles on the parishes of the county. The parishes are arranged within their "hundreds".
- GENUKI main page for Bedfordshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
- Bedfordshire family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
- The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence at that date with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, Bedfordshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
- These two maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
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