Chelveston-cum-Caldecott is a village and parish, in the hundred of Higham Ferrers, and diocese of Peterborough, distant 6½ miles north-east from Wellingborough, 6 from Thrapston, and 2½ east-by-north from Higham Ferrers, and is also situate in an agricultural district. The population in 1851 was 402, and the parish contained about 1,730 acres of land. The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat stone edifice, with a square tower, and is situate in a field, some distance from the village; the living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Higham Ferrers. There is a free school, partly supported by a bequest of land, producing £28 per annum; also four almshouses for four widows, founded under the will of James and Thomas Sawyer, dated 1708, together with £10 annually, for ever.
Letters are received through Higham Ferrers.
