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Its pubs and eateries include The White Hart, a 17th-century thatched building, The George Inn, and The Dog & Badger. It has a primary school, Maulden Lower School for ages 4 to 9- with after school clubParish Church
The parish church of Maulden is St Mary the Virgin. It stands on the Greensand Ridge to one side of the village main road. There are church services every Sunday and throughout the week. The church has an active congregation, with a variety of different events taking place. There is one rectory for the Parish of St Mary the Virgin. The current recent rector is the Revd Canon Lynda Klimas. Maulden church (and other locations around the village and some Maulden residents) feature in two books, published in 2013 and 2015, entitled ''Musings from Maulden'' and ''More Musings from Maulden''. In 1824 the church consisted of the tower, a nave with a very low roof (it was reported in the ''Bedford Mercury'' of October 1858 that during a heavy downpour it was difficult to hear the sermon), a chancel with a slightly higher roof, a north aisle and gallery. This gallery was quite large, and because of the low roof came down to only two feet above the tops of the pews underneath, as well as blocking the light from two of the windows. The pews, some of which faced different ways, provided seating for 248, plus 40 in the gallery. There was no south aisle and no vestry. There was a south entrance with a porch, and a doorway in the north wall, next to the passageway to the Ailesbury mausoleum. The bell tower is in active use and includes a mechanical Westminster "chime" which is a distinctive sound in the village. In the churchyard stands a 17th-century mausoleum and crypt known as the Ailesbury Mausoleum (pictured). The original mausoleum was built by Thomas, Earl of Elgin, in memory of his second wife Diana, daughter of the Earl of Stamford. The mausoleum and crypt are sometimes open to visitors during the summer months. On 6 August 2008, lead was stolen from the roof of the mausoleum, causing at least £10,000 worth of damage.Maulden Baptist Church
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The 1851 Census Index for Maulden can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 4, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society. More recent surveys are available from the National Audit Office.History
Maulden was a parish in the union of Ampthill, hundred of Redbornestoke, county of Bedford, miles from Ampthill; containing 1331 inhabitants. The parish comprised nearly 3000 acres (12 km2), of which 260 were woodland and plantations, and of the remainder, two-thirds were arable and one third pasture. Many of the women were employed in lacemaking and the plaiting of straw. There were some quarries of sandstone; and a pleasure fair was held in the week nearest to St. Bartholomews-day. The living was a rectory, valued in the King's books at £15.9.7; net income £512; patron, the Marquess of Ailesbury. The tithes were commuted for land and a corn rent, under an act of enclosure in 1796. The church, principally in the latter English style, was, with little intermixture, completely restored in 1837. There were places of worship for baptists and Methodists.Surrounding scenery
Maulden is surrounded by arable land and rolling pasture hills to the west, allotments and more arable land to the south, and hilly pasture to the east. To the northeast,Culture
Maulden Players are an amateur dramatics society who meet weekly at Maulden Village Hall on a Monday night and 2 – 3 times a year put on performances for public audiences. The Players were founded in 1983 under the former guise of St. Mary's Parish Players. Originally only putting on one performance a year with the pantomime in January, the Players soon added more productions to their calendar which usually include a play in May/June for the adult members of the group and a youth production around September/October.Notable residents
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Maulden was referred to in the Local, National and International Media in March 2017 following a formal complaint (under the Clergy Discipline Measure) lodged with the Bishop of St Albans regarding alleged misrepresentations made by the Rector in a Court of Law (the Consistory Court of the Diocese) and to others. No action was takenNeighbourhood Plan
In June 2016 Central Bedfordshire Council designated the village as a neighbourhood area for the purposed of making a Neighbourhood Development Plan. The Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group create and assist the Parish Council to create a Neighbourhood Plan for the village of Maulden, within its parish boundary as defined by Central Bedfordshire Council, for the benefit of the parish as a whole.http://www.mauldenvillage.org.uk/maulden-village-neighbourhood-plan/ Maulden Neighbourhood PlanReferences
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