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{{Short description|Village in Bedfordshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2016}}
{{infobox UK place
|official_name = Studham
|country = England
|region = East of England
|static_image_name = Studham Village Hall - geograph.org.uk - 69223.jpg
|static_image_caption = Studham Village Hall
| population = 1,182
| population_ref = (parish)<ref name="ONS">ONS, [https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp Census 2021 Parish Profiles]</ref>
|os_grid_reference = TL022157
|coordinates = {{coord|51.8315|-0.5169|display=inline,title}}
|post_town = DUNSTABLE
|postcode_area = LU
|postcode_district = LU6
|dial_code = 01582
|constituency_westminster = [[Luton South (UK Parliament constituency)|Luton South and south Bedfordshire]]<ref>[https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/32/electoral_registration_and_elections/1503/new_parliamentary_constituencies New parliamentary constituencies for Central Bedfordshire]</ref>
|civil_parish=  Studham
|unitary_england=           [[Central Bedfordshire]]
|lieutenancy_england =    [[Bedfordshire]]
}}

'''Studham''' is a village and [[civil parish]] in the county of [[Bedfordshire]].  It has a population of 1,182.<ref name="ONS"/> The parish bounds to the south of the [[Buckinghamshire]] border, and to the east is the [[Hertfordshire]] border. The village lies in the wooded south facing dip slope of the [[Chiltern Hills]]. The [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] of [[Holywell, Bedfordshire|Holywell]] is located to the north of Studham, and forms part of the same civil parish.

In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, it was recorded as ''Estodham''. [[Church of St Mary, Studham|Studham's church]] celebrated its [[millennium]] in 1997.

The ancient parish of Studham straddled the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire border. It also had a detached part known as Humbershoe which lay to the east of the rest of the parish, which contained the north-western part of the village of [[Markyate]]. Humbershoe became a separate [[civil parish]] in 1866, and was separated from the ecclesiastical parish of Studham in October 1877 when it was included in the new ecclesiastical parish of St John Markyate Street.<ref>London Gazette, 30 October 1877, page 5853</ref> In December 1894, under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], the parish of Studham was partitioned into two parts, one on each side of the county border. The Studham (Bedfordshire) parish was included in the [[Luton Rural District]], whilst the Studham (Hertfordshire) parish was included in the [[Markyate Rural District]]. The two parishes were re-united as a single parish less than three years later, in September 1897, when the Studham (Hertfordshire) parish was [[List of Hertfordshire boundary changes|transferred from Hertfordshire]] to Bedfordshire.<ref>Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume 1.</ref>

The village currently has two pubs; the older of which, The Bell, is considered to have been in existence before the [[English Civil War]]. In the early 20th century, work to make safe the old well in the pub garden revealed discarded or hidden civil war weapons.

In the early evening of 23 May 1948, an ex-[[Royal Air Force|RAF]] [[Handley Page Halifax]], registered ''[[Aircraft registration|G-AIZO]]'', and operated by Bond Air Services Ltd. carrying a cargo of [[apricot]]s from [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]], Spain, [[List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1945–1949)#1948|crashed]] at Studham.<ref>Aeroplane Monthly – May 1984 issue – ''Unscheduled Arrival'' article – pp. 252–253</ref>

==Education==
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In previous eras Studham was included in a zone with priority admissions for a middle school, but this was no longer the case as of 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/5/school_admissions/504/school_catchment_areas|title=School catchment areas|publisher=Central Bedfordshire|access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Studham}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110615093731/http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Studham/StudhamIndexOfPages.aspx Studham pages] at the [[Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service]]

{{Places in Bedfordshire}}

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[[Category:Villages in Bedfordshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Bedfordshire]]
[[Category:Central Bedfordshire District]]


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