Houghton Regis

• The 1851 Census Index for Houghton Regis can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 6, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

• There are photographs and a description of All Saints on the Bedfordshire Parish Churches website.

• Church of England
  • The church of St. Michael, formerly All Saints, is an ancient fabric of mixed styles, chiefly Decorated, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a noble embattled western tower with an octagonal embattled turret at the south-west angle, and containing 6 bells : the chancel is Decorated, and the nave arcades belong to the same period: the clerestory and roof are plain Perpendicular : both nave and aisles are embattled : the Norman font is cylindrical, widening towards the top, and the whole exterior is richly carved in three bands, the lowermost being fluted; the base is cushioned, with cable moulding : there are brasses to John Waleys, vicar, 1400 ; William Waleys ; and Sir William Walley, vicar, 1506; besides several memorial slabs of ancient date: in an arch in the wall of the south aisle is an effigy of Sir John Sewell knt. formerly of this parish: there are also various monuments to members of the Brandreth family. The register dates from the year 1538. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
• Non-conformist
  • There is an iron mission church in connection with St. Michael's, in Union street, Upper Houghton; Rev. William John Jones B.A. of the University of London, is curate. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels at Houghton, and a Wesleyan chapel at Upper Houghton. [Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898

• Church of England
  • The parish record transcripts for St. Michael are available on microfiche for the period 1538-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.

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

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL017239 (Lat/Lon: 51.904368, -0.523144), Houghton Regis which are provided by:

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• 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.)
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• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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• The BFHS Project in conjunction with Roll of Honour contains the Houghton Regis War Memorial transcription with details of the men found on it.