Campton
Campton is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is about 9 miles south of Bedford, and is about 9 miles north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the River Ivel.Photo: The joy of all things, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Campton, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints, Campton and The White Hart Public House.
Church of All Saints, Campton
Church
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church in the village of Campton, Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. Its official title is Campton and Chicksands Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chicksands and Shefford.
Chicksands
Locality
Photo: Marcus de Figueiredo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It gives its name to MOD Chicksands, a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the Chicksands Priory estate.
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.
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.
Campton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Campton and Chicksands, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.02936° or 52° 1′ 46″ northLongitude
-0.35354° or 0° 21′ 13″ westOpen location code
9C4X2JHW+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 21519275OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q1520170
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Campton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كامبتون”
- Dutch: “Campton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامبتون”
- French: “Campton”
- Irish: “Campton”
- Italian: “Campton”
- Ladin: “Campton”
- Persian: “کمپتون، بدفوردشر”
- Polish: “Campton”
- Swedish: “Campton, England”
- Swedish: “Campton”
- Volapük: “Campton”
- Welsh: “Campton, Swydd Bedford”
- Welsh: “Campton”
- “Campton”
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