Cardington

• The 1851 Census Index for Cardington can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 2, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
• The 1851 Census Index for Eastcotts can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 2, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • St. Mary's Church, Cardington. (Yet another Bedfordshire Church hidden by trees!)
    • Internal view looking down the nave
    • The Font
  • St. Mary's Church, Cardington. (View 2)
  • The Howard Memorial Congregational Church, Cardington.
• There are photographs and a description of St Mary's on the Bedfordshire Parish Churches website.

• Church of England
  • The church of St. Mary, with the exception of the chancel, is now (1898) being rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, from designs by Mr. Highton, architect, of Bedford, and will eventually consist of chancel with aisles, nave with clerestory, aisles and a western tower to contain 8 bells: in the north aisle of the chancel is a mural tablet to John Howard, the philanthropist, d. 20th Jan, 1790; there are also several marble monuments by Weekes Bacon to the Whitbread family: under the arcades of the chancel are two canopied altar tombs with brasses, one to the family of Sir W. Gascoigne, comptroller of the household to Cardinal Wolsey, the other to Sir Jarrate Harvye: the stained east window was erected to the memory of W. H. Whitbread esq. : in the south wall of the chancel is a piscine. The register dates from the year 1574. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
• Non-conformist
  • The Wesleyan chapel at Cardington was erected in 1823. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
  • At Cotton End is a large Baptist chapel, re-built by subscription in 1836, and seating about 600 persons. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

• Church of England
  • The parish record transcripts for St. Mary are available on microfiche for the period 1574-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• A transcript of the Cardington parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Cardington parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Cardington parish entries from The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1866-9
• A transcript of the Cardington parish entries from Kelly's 1898 Directory of Bedfordshire

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL088477 (Lat/Lon: 52.116924, -0.412431), Cardington 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 Cardington War Memorial transcription for WW1 and WW2, the Cotton End memorial with details of the men found on it and the Cardington memorial to the men who died in the R101 disaster.