Studham, Bedfordshire

Description
Studham, a parish in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, 4 1/2 miles S of Dunstable, where there are stations on the G.N.R. and L. & N.W.R. It contains Studham village and Humbershoe hamlet, and has a post office under Dunstable; money order and telegraph office, Little Gaddesden. Acres in Beds, 1584; population, 248; acres in Herts, 1449; population, 128. There is a parish council for Studham, Beds, of five members, and another for Studham, Herts, also of five members. The manor, with most of The land, belongs to Earl Brownlow. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely 1/2 gross value, £218 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, which dates from the early part of the 13th century, is a building in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. It was restored in 1893. There is a Wesleyan chapel.