Hulcote
General History
Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire 1894 (Extract)

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Holcot (or Hulcote) is a parish 2 miles north from Ridgmont and Woburn Sands Stations on the Bletchley and Bedford section of the London and North Western railway, 4 1/2 north from Woburn and 12 south-west from Bedford, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Manshead, petty sessional division and union of Woburn, county court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Fleete, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. The church of St Nicholas is a very small but ancient edifice of late Perpendicular date, consisting of chancel, nave and a low embattled western tower, with pinnacles at the angles and containing 4 bells; there are monuments of the Chernocke family from the time of Henry VIII. to the present day, and these include one, beautifully carved, with effigies and shields of arms, to Robert Chernocke, 1547, and Richard his son, 1615; there are other monuments to Lieut. Col. C Harvey Smith, of Aspley House, 1857, and Frances, his wife, and others to the Rev. Edward Harvey, rector, 1796; in the nave is a slab inscribed to William Nichols esq. 1619; the east window is stained; the church is not now in use, except as a mortuary chapel. The register dates from the year 1658.The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Salford annexed, average tithe rent charge 102, joint net yearly value 242, including 120 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1865 by the Rev. Boteler Chernocke Smith B.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, and rural dean of Fleete. The charities of the two parishes of Holcot and Salford amount to about 30 yearly, and are distributed under a scheme approved by the Charity Commissioners. The Rev. Boteler Chernocke Smith B.A. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is strong clay, chiefly grazing land; subsoil, strong clay. The crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The area is 888 acres; rateable value, 1,110; the population in 1891 was 48.

Sexton, Jesse Bennett.

Letters received through Bletchley arrive at 9 am & are despatched at 5.10 pm. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Aspley Guise.

The children of this place attend the school at Salford.

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