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Cardington

Cardington

Cardington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Part of the ancient hundred of Wixamtree, the settlement is best known in connection with the Cardington airship works founded by Short Brothers during World War I, which later became an RAF training station.
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  • Type: Village with 288 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Cardington, Bedfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Cardington and The Kings Arms Public House.

Church
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pub
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in , , England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is constructed of sandstone and clunch, in the Early English Period and Perpendicular styles.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shortstown and Harrowden.

Village
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is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of , on a ridge above the River Great Ouse, originally called Tinkers Hill. The ridge overlooks to the north and to the south.

Hamlet
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is a one-street hamlet in the civil parish of , , England. The street runs from east to west parallel and to the south of the A421 Bedford Southern Bypass, and 200 metres to the north of the village of Shortstown.

Village
Photo: Oliver White, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the county of . The name is derived from the phrase Cock Pool, a place where chickens were kept, that was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Cardington

Latitude
52.11794° or 52° 7′ 5″ north
Longitude
-0.41379° or 0° 24′ 50″ west
Population
288
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB C5T
Open location code
9C4X4H9P+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14956587
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653813
Wiki­data ID
Q659945
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cardington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كردينغتون”
  • Basque: “Cardington”
  • Cebuano: “Cardington”
  • Chinese: “Cardington”
  • Dutch: “Cardington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كردينجتون”
  • French: “Cardington”
  • Irish: “Cardington”
  • Italian: “Cardington”
  • Japanese: “カーディントン (ベッドフォードシャー)”
  • Ladin: “Cardington (Bedfordshire)”
  • Ladin: “Cardington”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cardington (Bedfordshire)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cardington”
  • Norwegian: “Cardington”
  • Persian: “کاردینگتون بدفوردشیر”
  • Polish: “Cardington”
  • Russian: “Кардингтон”
  • Swedish: “Cardington, Bedfordshire”
  • Swedish: “Cardington”
  • Turkish: “Cardington, Bedfordshire”
  • Welsh: “Cardington, Swydd Bedford”
  • Welsh: “Cardington”
  • “Cardington”

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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 “Cardington”. Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.