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"CARDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Wixamtree, in the county of Bedford, 3 miles to the south east of Bedford, its post town. It is situated on the south side of the river Ouse, and is a station on the Midland (South-East branch) railway. The parish includes the chapelry of East Cotts. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Ely, value £245, in the patron: of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It contains two monumental brasses, a fine monument, by Bacon, to Samuel Whitbread, the great brewer, and a tablet to the memory of John Howard, the philanthropist, who resided some time at the manor-house in this parish, and died at Cherson in 1796. There is a chapel belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists. The parochial charities amount to about £28 per annum. The manor-house is the seat of the Whitbreads, who settled at Cardington about 1650.""CHAPEL END, a hamlet in the parish of Cardington, hundred of Wixamtree, in the county of Bedford, ½ mile north east of Cardington."
"COTTON END, a hamlet in the parish of Cardington, hundred of Wixamtree, in the county of Bedford, 3 miles south east of Bedford."
"EASTCOTTS, a township and chapelry in the parish of Cardington, hundred of Wixamtree, county Bedford, 7 miles west of Biggleswade."
"FENLAKE, a hamlet in the parish of Cardington, hundred of Wixamtree, county Bedford, 1 mile south east of Bedford. The river Ouse flows through the hamlet."
"HARROWDEN, a hamlet in the parish of Cardington, county Beds, 2½ miles south-east of Bedford Bridge, and 8 north west of Biggleswade. It is situated on a branch of the river Ouse."
"HERRING'S GREEN, a hamlet in the parish of Cardington, hundred of Wixamtree, in the county of Bedford, 3 miles south of Cardington."
"SHORTSTOWN, a 20th century village, in the parish of Cardington, county of Bedfordshire, 1¼ miles south west of Cardington."