# Bellingdon

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Village in Buckinghamshire, England

Human settlement in England

Bellingdon St John's Church Bellingdon Bellingdon Location within Buckinghamshire OS grid reference SP9404 Civil parish Chartridge Unitary authority Buckinghamshire Ceremonial 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 UK Parliament Mid Buckinghamshire[1] List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°44′06″N 0°37′51″W / 51.734876°N 0.630916°W / 51.734876; -0.630916

**Bellingdon** is a village in the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) of [Chartridge](/source/Chartridge) (where the 2011 Census was included), in [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire), England.[2] The name derives from the [Anglo Saxon](/source/Old_English_language) *Bellingdenu* or Bella's Valley, and is recorded as *Belenden* in the 15th century. It is arranged along a ridge, typical of the [Chiltern Hills](/source/Chiltern_Hills) to the north of [Chesham](/source/Chesham).

## Early settlement

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 the late 16th or early 17th-century.[2] The abundance of clay deposits led to a number of brickworks being established in the 19th century, two of which were: Bellingdon brickworks (now HG Matthews)[3] in 1891 and another at Bloomfield Farm in 1899, then in the 20th century on Gyles Road and Oak Lane.[4] Bakers brickyard, known as Lower Kiln, was situated opposite Huge Farm and was owned by the Baker family for three generations since 1899 when Joseph Baker the youngest son of the brickmaking Bakers from nearby Wigginton bought the brickyard for £5 from a Mr Clarke. Joseph, followed by his son William and then William's sons made bricks here until they ran out of clay in 1964. They were well known in the area for the excellent quality of their bricks.

## Modern day settlement

The village hall was built around 1948 using a 'standard hut' provided by the [National Council for Social Service](/source/National_Council_for_Social_Service) on land given by Miss Marian Thompson, the first W.I. President. Together with the adjoining playing fields, it is shared with the people of the nearby [hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)) of [Asheridge](/source/Asheridge). In 2010 a grant was awarded to fund the construction of a playground next to the village hall.[5] At the northern end of the village is the premises of The Bull [public house](/source/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](/source/HG_Matthews_Brickworks) which was acquired by the family in 1924.[6] Also at this end of the village is the Bellingdon End Farm shop selling equestrian supplies, animal feed and clothing.[7]

## 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.[2]

St John's Church, in the centre of the village, is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Great Chesham.[8] 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.[2][9]

## Education

There is no school in the village. Children under 11 attend [Chartridge Combined School](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chartridge_Combined_School&action=edit&redlink=1), [Hawridge and Cholesbury Church of England School](/source/Hawridge_and_Cholesbury_Church_of_England_School) or [Little Spring Primary School](/source/Little_Spring_Primary_School). The catchment area secondary schools are:- [Chiltern Hills Academy](/source/Chiltern_Hills_Academy) and [Chesham Grammar School](/source/Chesham_Grammar_School) in Chesham, [Amersham School](/source/Amersham_School) and [Dr Challoner's Grammar School](/source/Dr_Challoner's_Grammar_School) for boys in [Amersham](/source/Amersham) and [Dr Challoner's High School](/source/Dr_Challoner's_High_School) for girls in [Little Chalfont](/source/Little_Chalfont).

## Notable people

- [D.H. Lawrence](/source/D.H._Lawrence) rented one of the three Bellingdon Farm cottages called 'The Triangle' in Hawridge Lane for a short period between August 1914 and January 1915 during which time he wrote [The Rainbow](/source/The_Rainbow).[10]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Location of Mid Buckinghamshire"](https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4175/location). *parliament.uk*. July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HOL_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HOL_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-HOL_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-HOL_2-3) [History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 203-218](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42547&strquery=bellingdon%7CA) Accessed,10 September 2010

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Buckinghamshire County Council - Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161012072144/https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=%27MBC13713%27). Archived from [the original](https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=%27MBC13713%27) on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past - Chartridge](https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=TBC694), Accessed 14 December 2012

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Bellingdon Village Hall website](http://www.bellingdon.com/villagehall/history.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035019/http://www.bellingdon.com/villagehall/history.html) 2016-03-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), Accessed 14 December 2012

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [HG Matthews history](http://www.clients.sjidesign.com/hgmatthews/history.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20030509122903/http://www.clients.sjidesign.com/hgmatthews/history.html) May 9, 2003, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), Accessed 14 December 2012

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Home"](http://www.bellingdonend.co.uk/). *bellingdonend.co.uk*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [St John's Church, Bellingdon](http://www.greatchesham.org.uk/StJohnsB/StJohnB.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [A church near you - Bellingdon](http://www.achurchnearyou.com/bellingdon-st-john/), Accessed 31 December 2014

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [DH Lawrence in Bellingdon](http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/get/assets/docs/row/promoted_routes/Outer%20Ring.pdf)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

## External links

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