Place:Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, England

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NameAspley Guise
Alt namesApsley Guisesource: from redirect
Aspley-Guisesource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.017°N 0.628°W
Located inBedfordshire, England
See alsoManshead Hundred, Bedfordshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Ampthill Rural, Bedfordshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Mid Bedfordshire District, Bedfordshire, Englandnon-metropolitan district covering the area since 1974-2009
Central Bedfordshire District, Bedfordshire, Englandnon-metropolitan district covering the area since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Aspley Guise is a village and civil parish in the west of the Central Bedfordshire District of Bedfordshire, England. It directly adjoins Woburn Sands in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It is centred east by southeast of Milton Keynes and south of junction 13 of the M1 motorway. It has its own railway station, three calling points south of Bletchley on the West Coast Main Line, and a large historic centre with 29 listed buildings, four of which are in the second highest category. Aspley Guise had a population of 2,195 according to the UK census of 2011.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Aspley Guise. A long history of the ownership of the manor, most details pre 1600.

Aspley Guise was originally an ancient parish in the Manshead Hundred Hundred of Bedfordshire, England. It included what is now the civil parish of Aspley Heath.

It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it became part of the Ampthill Rural District. From 1974 until 2009 it was part of the non-metropolitan Mid Bedfordshire District and after 2009 in the Central Bedfordshire District.


Research Tips

  • The website British History Online provides three chapters of the Victoria County History Series on Bedfordshire. The first covers the religious houses of the county; the second and third provides articles on the parishes of the county. The parishes are arranged within their "hundreds".
  • GENUKI main page for Bedfordshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
  • Bedfordshire family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence at that date with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Bedfordshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • These two maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
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