Flitwick

Other current and historical names

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Built-Up Area: Ampthill
Parish/Community: Flitwick
Unitary Authority: Central Bedfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Town

Latitude/Longitude: 52°0'11"N 0°29'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 503394, 234924
OS Grid: TL033349
Mapcode Local: GBR G3P.7MP
Mapcode Global: VHFQT.CXK8

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Flitwick within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Flitwick in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Flitwick, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Bedfordshire, on river Ivel, 2½ miles SW. of Ampthill, 1700 ac., pop. 817; ½ mile W. of vil. is the seat of Flitwick Park.

Flitwick in the Domesday Book

A village in Redbornstoke hundred, in the county of Bedfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Alwin
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William Lovet
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William Lovet
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £3 in 1070; £2 10/- in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 7 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 5 ploughs
- Woodland: 100 pigs
- Mills: 1, value 6 shillings

British Place Names

Flitwick, Central Bedfordshire

Flitwick is a town in Ampthill, Central Bedfordshire

Flitwick in historic gazetteers

Flitwick in the Domesday Book