Shelton

Parish/Community: Dean and Shelton
Unitary Authority: Bedford
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 52°18'32"N 0°29'2"W
Eastings/Northings: 503450, 268957
OS Grid: TL034689
Mapcode Local: GBR G00.BF8
Mapcode Global: VHFPG.K7G8

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

Shelton in historic gazetteers

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

Shelton.-- par., Bedfordshire, 4 miles W. of Kimbolton, 1080 ac., pop. 149.

Shelton in the Domesday Book

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

- Overlord in 1066: Burgred father of Edwin
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Wulfeva of Norton
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Coutances
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William, steward of the Bishop of Coutances (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £3 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 5 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough
- Woodland: 4 pigs
- Mills: 1, value 3 shillings

British Place Names

Shelton, Bedford

Shelton is a hamlet in Bedford

Shelton in historic gazetteers

Shelton in the Domesday Book