Arlesey

• The 1851 Census Index for Arlesey can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 3, Book 3 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• There are photographs and a description of St Peter's on the Bedfordshire Parish Churches website.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. Peter's Church, Arlesey

• Church of England
  • The church of St.Peter is a plain edifice, of stone, in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south chapel, south porch and a massive western tower of stone, pebbles and cement, erected in 1877 and containing 5 bells: the font has an octagonal basin, the sides of which are richly panelled and carved, and below are figures of cherubim; there are two stained windows, in the chancel, and one at the west end: the church contains some fine marble monuments to the Brown and Edwards families. The register of baptisms dates from 1538; marriages and burials 1559. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
• Non-conformist
  • The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1850, will seat 300, and there is, a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1875. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

• Church of England
  • The parish record transcripts for St Peter are available on microfiche for the period 1538-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
• There are entries in the Biggleswade district Marriage Certificates for this parish

• A transcript of the Arlesey parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Arlesey parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Arlesey parish entries from The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1866-9

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Arlesey to another place.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL192357 (Lat/Lon: 52.006945, -0.264799), Arlesey which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The BFHS Project in conjunction with Roll of Honour contains the Arlesey War Memorial transcription for WW1 and WW2 with details of the men found on it.