Flitwick

Flitwick
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Flitwick is located in Bedfordshire
Flitwick
Flitwick
Location within Bedfordshire
Population13,663 (Parish, 2021)[1]
OS grid referenceTL033350
Civil parish
  • Flitwick
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBEDFORD
Postcode districtMK45
Dialling code01525
PoliceBedfordshire
FireBedfordshire and Luton
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Bedfordshire
52°00′14″N 0°29′48″W / 52.00384°N 0.49656°W / 52.00384; -0.49656

Flitwick (/ˈflɪtɪk/ ) is a town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, England. It is mentioned[3] in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "a hamlet on the River Flitt". The spelling Flytwyk appears in 1381.[4]

The nearby River Flit runs through Flitwick Moor, a nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[5]

  1. ^ "Flitwick parish". City Population. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Central Bedfordshire Council Website". Central Bedfordshire Council. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  3. ^ See Bedfordshire Virtual Library's Flitwick Timeline Archived 23 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ National Archives; Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; CP 40/483; Year 1381, 4th term; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no483/483_0207.htm; second entry, home of Richard Hake, the defendant
  5. ^ Its name is not ancient but a back-formation from Flitton. Ekwall, E. (1940) The Concise Dictionary of England Place-names; 2nd ed. Oxford:Clarendon Press; p. 174.