| Studham | |
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 Studham Village Hall | |
  Studham Location withinBedfordshire | |
| Population | 1,182 (parish)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL022157 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DUNSTABLE |
| Postcode district | LU6 |
| Dialling code | 01582 |
| Police | Bedfordshire |
| Fire | Bedfordshire and Luton |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Studham is a village andcivil parish in the county ofBedfordshire. It has a population of 1,182.[1] The parish bounds to the south of theBuckinghamshire border, and to the east is theHertfordshire border. The village lies in the wooded south facing dip slope of theChiltern Hills. Thehamlet ofHolywell is located to the north of Studham, and forms part of the same civil parish.
In theDomesday Book of 1086, it was recorded asEstodham.Studham's church celebrated itsmillennium in 1997.
The ancient parish of Studham straddled the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire border. It also had a detached part known as Humbershoe which lay to the east of the rest of the parish, which contained the north-western part of the village ofMarkyate. Humbershoe became a separatecivil parish in 1866, and was separated from the ecclesiastical parish of Studham in October 1877 when it was included in the new ecclesiastical parish of St John Markyate Street.[3] In December 1894, under theLocal Government Act 1894, the parish of Studham was partitioned into two parts, one on each side of the county border. The Studham (Bedfordshire) parish was included in theLuton Rural District, whilst the Studham (Hertfordshire) parish was included in theMarkyate Rural District. The two parishes were re-united as a single parish less than three years later, in September 1897, when the Studham (Hertfordshire) parish wastransferred from Hertfordshire to Bedfordshire.[4]
The village currently has two pubs; the older of which, The Bell, is considered to have been in existence before theEnglish Civil War. In the early 20th century, work to make safe the old well in the pub garden revealed discarded or hidden civil war weapons.
In the early evening of 23 May 1948, an ex-RAFHandley Page Halifax, registeredG-AIZO, and operated by Bond Air Services Ltd. carrying a cargo ofapricots fromValencia, Spain,crashed at Studham.[5]
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In previous eras Studham was included in a zone with priority admissions for a middle school, but this was no longer the case as of 2025.[6]
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