Bellingdon

Coordinates: 51°44′06″N 0°37′51″W / 51.734876°N 0.630916°W / 51.734876; -0.630916

Bellingdon
St John's Church Bellingdon
Bellingdon  Bellingdon shown within Buckinghamshire
OS grid reference	SP9404
Civil parish	Chartridge
District	Chiltern
Shire county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESHAM
Postcode district	HP5
Dialling code	01494
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Amersham
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Bellingdon the name deriving from the Anglo Saxon Bellingdenu or Bella's Valley is a village in the parish of Chartridge, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is two miles north of Chesham, and situated along a ridge, typical of the Chiltern Hills.

Huge Farm, Bellingdon

Until the end of the 19th century Bellingdon consisted of a number of scattered farms including Bank, Peppetts, Bellingdon End, Bloomfield, Huge, Hazeldean and Vale Farms which were built in late 16th or early 17th-century.^[1]

There is a village hall, with adjoining playing fields, shared with the nearby hamlet of Asheridge. At the northern end of the village is the premises of The Bull public house which ceased to trade in the summer of 2009 and was boarded up, and beyond this the largest employer in the village, HG Matthews Brickworks which was acquired by the family in 1923.

D.H. Lawrence rented a cottage called The Triangle in Hawridge Lane for a short period between August 1914 and January 1915 during which time he wrote The Rainbow.^[2]

Churches

In the nineteenth century there was a Baptist meeting in the village at Peppett's Green, which was run by the Congregational Church and the Lower Baptist Chapel (now Trinity Baptist) in Chesham. It is mentioned in the 1851 Ecclesiastical Census. Peppett's Farm was owned by the Lower Baptist Church but sold in the 1920s.

St John's Church, in the centre of the village is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Great Chesham.^[3] The Anglican congregation started in the 1870s, in the 1880s it met in the Mission Room at Sun Cottage. The current tin tabernacle was built in 1901. In 1958 the building was named "St John's", after St John the Evangelist.

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