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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woburn Sands like this:
WOBURN-SANDS, a hamlet in Wavendon parish, Bucks, and a chapelry partly also in Aspley-Guise parish, Beds. The hamlet lies on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, 3 miles ENE of Fenny-Stratford; and has a post-office under Woburn, and a r. station. The chapelry was constituted in 1867. Pop., 850. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £166. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. There are chapels for Quakers and Wesleyans, and a national school.
Woburn Sands is now part of CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woburn Sands itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woburn Sands, in Central Bedfordshire and Bedfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23829
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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