Eastcotts

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official_name = Eastcotts
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shire_county= Bedfordshire
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Eastcotts is a village and civil parish in the English county of Bedfordshire. There are two main centres of population in the parish. The village of Eastcotts itself is in the southern part of the parish, but the majority of the population of the parish, which was 3,820 in 2005, [ [http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/Statisticsandcensus/FactsAndFigures/PopulationEstimatesAndForecasts.aspx Bedfordshire Population Estimates and Forecasts from Bedford Borough Council] ] lives in Shortstown in the northern part of the parish, which was built in the early 20th century to house workers from the Cardington airship works. The population of the parish is expected to rise substantially in the near future, as planning permission for the development of 1,100 homes on the 42-hectare site of the former RAF camp in Shortstown was granted in November 2005. [ [http://www.bedford.gov.uk/GetResource.aspx?file=Land%20at%20and%20adjacent%20to%20the%20Former%20RAF%20Camp%20at%20Shortstown2.pdf Land at and adjacent to the former RAF site at Shortstown] – statement of circa November 2005 from Bedford Borough Council, with link to full planning brief prepared in January 2003.] The parish also has a one-street hamlet called Harrowden and a few isolated dwellings.

A Boarding School was established in the village as a result of the Elementary Education Act 1870. The school was built in 1874, at a cost of £1,174, for 140 children with a schoolmaster’s house attached.

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* [http://www.bedford.gov.uk/GetResource.aspx?file=boundaries.pdf Parish boundaries map from Bedford Borough Council]