Campton, Bedfordshire

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude= 52.029

longitude= -0.358

official_name= Campton
population = 2,140(est.) [ [http://www.bedscc.gov.uk/BedsCC/SDimr2.nsf/Web/Thepage/Population+Estimates+and+Forecasts+2005 Bedfordshire County Council: Population Estimates and Forecasts 2005] .]
shire_district= Mid Bedfordshire
shire_county = Bedfordshire
region= East of England

constituency_westminster= Mid Bedfordshire
post_town= SHEFFORD
postcode_district=SG17
postcode_area=SG
dial_code= 01462
os_grid_reference= TL0523

Campton is a village in the Mid Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands with the nearby Chicksands. It is about nine miles (15km) south of Bedford, and is about nine miles north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the River Ivel It is just to the west of Shefford. At the centre of the village of is the 13th century All Saints' Church.

Chicksands is to the north of the village, and consists almost entirely of the wooded Chicksands Priory estate. It was used as an American military base until 1995 and is now used as the British Intelligence & Security Centre (since 1997.

For local government purposes it forms part of Mid Bedfordshire District council and is within the Mid Bedfordshire parliamentary constituency, whose MP is currently Nadine Dorries of the Conservative Party.

References

External links

* [http://www.camptonandchicksands.org.uk/ Parish website]