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Wilden is a village and
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Wilden Bus company site with timetable. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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Wilden Lower SchoolWilden village hall
{{authority control Villages in Bedfordshire Civil parishes in Bedfordshire Borough of Bedford
civil parish
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located in the Borough of Bedford
The Borough of Bedford is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. Its council is based in Bedford, its namesake and principal settlement, which is the county town of Bedfordshire. The bor ...
in Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council wa ...
, England. The population of 399 in the 2011 Census was estimated at 392 in 2019.
Heritage
John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' describes Wilden as it was in 1870–1872: "WILDEN, a parish in the district and county of Bedford; 5 miles NE of Bedford r ilwaystation. It has a post-office under Bedford. Acres, 2,160. Real property, £2,765. Pop lation 501. Houses, 112. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400.* Patron, Mrs. Chalk. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £47 a year, and charities £26."Famous person
The scholar and Bible translatorFrancis Dillingham
Francis Dillingham (born in Dean, Bedfordshire – died 1625 in Wilden, Bedfordshire) was an English Protestant scholar, cleric and Bible translator.
Career
Dillingham was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow there in 159 ...
died in Wilden in 1625.
Amenities
The village has a 14th–15th century Grade I listedAnglican
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church dedicated to St Nicholas.Church site. Retrieved 30 August 2018./ref> There is a
Baptist
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Chapel in Great Barford Road, with Sunday services held there three times a month. The chapel was probably founded in 1806, although its old Church Book has been lost.
Wilden Primary School
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is a Voluntary Aided Church of England
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school. It recently had 59 pupils, and a pre-school section for 10. It dates back to the 17th century and was rebuilt in the 19th. Additions were made in 1972, 1993, 2004 and 2013. It serves as a lower school within a group of schools called St Albans Cluster.
There are five Grade II listed buildings in the village. The single pub
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is called the ''Victoria Arms'', but it is currently closed. There is also a village hall
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United Kingdom
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available for local activities.
Wilden is served by a daytime bus service: Grant Palmer No. 27S between Bedford and Ravensden. It runs four times a day on Monday to Saturday./ref>
References
External links
Wilden Lower School
{{authority control Villages in Bedfordshire Civil parishes in Bedfordshire Borough of Bedford