Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Melchbourne within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Melchbourne par. and vil., Bedfordshire, 5½ miles SE. of Higham Ferrers, 2574 ac., pop. 219; Melchbourne Hall, seat of Lord St John of Bletsoe, stands in a fine park; there are some remains of a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of time of Henry I.
A village in Stodden hundred, in the county of Bedfordshire.