Coordinates: 51°44′06″N 0°37′51″W / 51.734876°N 0.630916°W
| Bellingdon | |
  Bellingdon shown within Buckinghamshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Parish | Chartridge |
| District | Chiltern |
| Shire county | Buckinghamshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHESHAM |
| Postcode district | HP5 |
| Dialling code | 01494 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European 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.
St John's Church, in the centre of the village is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Great Chesham[1]. It was built in 1901 and replaced a former Mission Room where Sun Cottage now is. The building was named "St John's" in 1958. In the nineteenth century there was also a Baptist chapel in the village at Peppett's Green, which was a branch of the Lower Baptist Chapel in Chesham.
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 Bull public house and beyond this the largest employer in the village, HG Matthews Brickworks which was acquired in 1923.
D.H. Lawrence rented a cottage call The Triangle in Hawridge Lane for a short period between August 1914 and January 1915 during which time he wrote The Rainbow[2].
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