Dean

• The 1851 Census Index for Dean can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 2, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society. The full 1891 Census of Dean Parish is available as fiche set C14 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Hallows Church, Upper Dean. (view 1)
    • Internal view looking down the nave
    • The font
  • All Hallows Church, Upper Dean. (view 2)
  • The United Reformed Church, Upper Dean. (formerly an independent Chapel).
• There are photographs and a description of All Hallows on the Bedfordshire Parish Churches website.

• Church of England
  • The church of All Saints, situated in Upper Dean, is a building of mixed styles, chiefly Decorated and Perpendicular, and consists of chancel, clerestoriod nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a Decorated western tower, with short octagonal spire relieved bv two tiers of small dormers, containing 4 bells and a clock : the chancel, aisles, clerestory and roof are Perpendicular, the chancel arch is Early English, the nave arches Decorated; the roof, a fine open one, has very richly carved bosses and figures of angels, and the wall plates are ornamented with foliage and shields: in the north aisle is a cinquefoiled sepulchral recess and a hagioscope; and in the south porch a holy water stoup : in the south aisle is a piscina, and an altar-tomb with brass to Sir Thomas Parker, prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Mary in Shrewsbury, and rector of Dean, who died in 1501: there is also a monument to Francis Dillingham, rector here, and one of the translators of the Bible, dated 1593; and a record of Joseph Neales educational endowment, left in 1702: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1566. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
• Non-conformist
  • There is a Wesleyan chapel at Nether Dean, erected in 1846, and a Congregational chapel at Upper Dean, built at the sole cost of William Ackroyd esq. in 1863. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

• Church of England
  • The parish record transcripts for All Saints are available on microfiche for the period 1566-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

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

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL053685 (Lat/Lon: 52.304533, -0.457064), Dean 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 Upper Dean War Memorial transcription for WW1 and WW2 with details of the men found on it.