The ward includes the villages of Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Eggington, Stanbridge, Tilsworth, Tebworth, and Wingrave.

[3] A charter dated 926 AD recorded the grant of land at Cealhgraefan (Chalgrave) and Teobbanwyrthe (Tebworth) from Æthelstan, King of the Anglo-Saxons, to the thegn Ealdred.

[5] Albert was a cleric favoured by both Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, and received from them lands and houses in Bedfordshire and elsewhere.

At the beginning of the 13th century the church was rebuilt, and the manorial complex was moved east and then north to what is now Chalgrave Manor Farm.

[2] The Icknield Way Path passes through the village past the church on its 110-mile journey from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk.