Shillington
Shillington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. In the south of the parish the hamlet of Pegsdon includes the Pegsdon hills nature reserve and is a salient of the county into Hertfordshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,450 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shillington and Stondon” and “Shillington, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Knocking Hoe and Parish Church of Saint Margaret.
Knocking Hoe
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knocking Hoe is a 7.7-hectare National Nature Reserve and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is mentioned in A Nature Conservation Review. Knocking Hoe is situated 2 miles south of Shillington.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret
Church
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret is situated 1½ miles southwest of Shillington.
Church of St Mary (Church of England)
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary (Church of England) is situated 2 miles southeast of Shillington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Apsley End and Meppershall.
Apsley End
Locality
Shillington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. In the south of the parish the hamlet of Pegsdon includes the Pegsdon hills nature reserve and is a salient of the county into Hertfordshire.
Meppershall
Village
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Meppershall is a hilltop village in Bedfordshire near Shefford, Campton, Shillington, Stondon and surrounded by farmland.
Upper Gravenhurst
Village
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upper Gravenhurst is a village in the civil parish of Gravenhurst, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The Church of St Giles has been established in the village since the 12th Century.
Shillington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shillington, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.99345° or 51° 59′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.35953° or 0° 21′ 34″ westPopulation
1,450Elevation
177 feet (54 metres)Open location code
9C3XXJVR+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 29359050OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2637977Wikidata ID
Q1520001
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shillington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيلينغتون”
- Basque: “Shillington (Bedfordshire)”
- Basque: “Shillington”
- Cebuano: “Shillington (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Shillington”
- Chinese: “Shillington”
- Dutch: “Shillington”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيلينجتون”
- French: “Shillington”
- Irish: “Shillington”
- Italian: “Shillington (Bedfordshire)”
- Italian: “Shillington”
- Japanese: “シリングトン”
- Japanese: “シリントン”
- Ladin: “Shillington”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shillington (Bedfordshire)”
- Persian: “شیلینگتون، بدفوردشر”
- Polish: “Shillington”
- Spanish: “Shillington”
- Swedish: “Shillington, Bedfordshire”
- Swedish: “Shillington”
- Turkish: “Shillington, Bedfordshire”
- Welsh: “Shillington, Swydd Bedford”
- Welsh: “Shillington”
- “Shillington”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shillington”. Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.