Campton is a village in the

Central Bedfordshire Central Bedfordshire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. It was created in 2009. Formation Central Bedfordshire was created on 1 April 2009 as part of a structural reform of local government in Bedfor ...

district of

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, England. It is part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

of Campton and Chicksands (population 1,700) with the nearby

Chicksands Chicksands is a village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands, whose population in 2007 was estimated to be 2,510. By the 2011 census the figure was accurately place ...

. It is about south of

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, and is about north-west from Letchworth and sits on a tributary of the

River Ivel The River Ivel is a north-flowing river in the western part of east of England. It is primarily in Bedfordshire; it is a tributary of the River Great Ouse and has sources including in the Barton Hills. Course The river Ivel has four headwater ...

. It is just to the west of Shefford. The 13th century Church of All Saints is in the centre of the village. Campton is mentioned in the

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. The entry reads: '' Chambeltone: Ralph de Lanquetot from Walter Giffard; Fulbert from Willian d'Eu; Thurstan.'' The name Campton is derived from a British stream name similar to the name

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is to the north of the village, and consists almost entirely of the wooded

Chicksands Priory Chicksands Priory is a former monastic house at Chicksands in Bedfordshire. History The Gilbertine priory of Chicksands was founded about 1152 by Rohese, Countess of Essex, and her second husband Payn de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford. Payn and R ...

estate. It was used as an American military base until 1995 and returned to the British military. If was first reopened as the

Defence Intelligence and Security Centre The Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG) is the location of the headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps. It is located at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, approximately north of London. T ...

(DISC) in 1997, which in turn became the

Joint Intelligence Training Group The Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG) is the location of the headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps. It is located at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, approximately north of London. T ...

(JITG) in 2015. For local government purposes it forms part of

Council and is within the Mid Bedfordshire parliamentary constituency, whose MP is currently

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of the

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References

External links

Parish website
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