Campton, Bedfordshire
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Campton is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is about Template:Convert south of Bedford, and is about Template:Convert north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the River Ivel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is just to the west of Shefford. The 13th century Church of All Saints is in the centre of the village.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
History
Campton is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The entry reads: Chambeltone: Ralph de Lanquetot from Walter Giffard; Fulbert from Willian d'Eu; Thurstan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The name Campton is derived from a British stream name similar to the name Camel in Cornwall.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Campton was an ancient parish in the Clifton Hundred of Bedfordshire. The parish historically included Shefford, which had its own chapel of ease from at least the 15th century.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref><ref name=VCH>Template:Cite book</ref> Parish functions under the poor laws from the 17th century onwards were administered separately for the chapelry of Shefford and the rest of Campton parish. As such, Shefford and Campton became separate civil parishes in 1866 when the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Shefford remained part of the ecclesiastical parish of Campton until 1903.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
In 1985 the civil parish of Campton was merged with the neighbouring parish of Chicksands to become a new parish called Campton and Chicksands.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the 1981 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Campton had a population of 1391.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Governance
Campton is in the Hitchin parliamentary constituency and the elected member is Alistair Strathern of the Labour Party.
Education
Template:Expand section It is in the catchment zone for Robert Bloomfield Academy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} - Map is on p. 34/35.</ref> It is also in the catchment zone for Samuel Whitbread Academy, which has an upper school and sixth form.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} - Map is on p. 35/35.</ref>