Chicksands
Chicksands is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,400 residents
- Description: village in Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chicksands Priory” and “Chicksands, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include MOD Chicksands and Military Intelligence Museum.
MOD Chicksands
Military installation
Ministry of Defence Chicksands, or more simply MOD Chicksands, is a tri-service British Armed Forces facility in Bedfordshire, approximately 35 miles north of London.
Chicksands Priory
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chicksands Priory is a former monastic house at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Campton and Shefford.
Campton
Village
Photo: The joy of all things, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Campton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Campton and Chicksands, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.
Shefford
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shefford is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,311. It lies 10 miles south-east of Bedford.
Beadlow
Hamlet
Beadlow is a hamlet in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands.
Chicksands
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Campton and Chicksands, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.03747° or 52° 2′ 15″ northLongitude
-0.36192° or 0° 21′ 43″ westPopulation
1,400Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)Open location code
9C4X2JPQ+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2621355582OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
2653185Wikidata ID
Q1522731
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chicksands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيكسندس”
- Arabic: “تشيككسندس”
- Armenian: “Chicksands”
- Basque: “Chicksands”
- Dutch: “Chicksands”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيككسندس”
- French: “Chicksands”
- Irish: “Chicksands”
- Italian: “Chicksands”
- Korean: “칙샌즈”
- Ladin: “Chicksands”
- Latvian: “Čiksendsa”
- Persian: “چیکسندز”
- Polish: “Chicksands”
- Spanish: “Chicksands”
- Swedish: “Chicksands”
- Volapük: “Chicksands”
- Welsh: “Chicksands”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Central Bedfordshire Council and Campton Plantation.
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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 “Chicksands”. Photo: Marcus de Figueiredo, CC BY-SA 2.0.