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ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
Historic Buildings of Bedfordshire England Image right - Turvey Abbey © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Bedfordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with th...
Elstow Moot Hall, Befordshire, England=>>===== Image Right - License CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki Moot Hall (aka "The Green House") stands in isolation on Elstow village green. This Tudor timber-framed building was built in the 15th century, possibly by the Abbey's carpenter William Arnold, to provide both a courtroom and a market house.When first constructed, the timber frame would have been in-filled...
Willington Manor, Bedfordshire, England=* Type of Building: Timber framed* Condition: Broken up* Location: Bedfordshire* Category: Grade II, of special interest* Date Listed: May 1984 by by the former Department of Environment. The 17th century (with one 18th century section altered in the 19th century) garden wall, which includes some remains of the former manor house, was also listed in May 1...
Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire, England= The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead (a Hamlet in Staploe parish) in the County of Bedfordshire in England. It is a Grade I listed building.The site and remains of the 700-year-old priory stand today neighbouring a light industrial estate, and disu...
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England=>>===== Image Right - © Copyright Nigel Cox and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Wrest Park is a country estate located near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.===History===Thomas Carew (1595–1...
Bedfordshire - Main Page ===== Image right - Flag of Bedfordshire - by Lookesmiley - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons This is the Umbrella Project Page for Bedfordshire, England.===RelatedProjects>===== Bedfordshire Burials >===== Bedfordshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >===== People Connected to Bedfordshire >===== Befordshire Famous People >===== Befordshire Geneal...
Wootton House, Bedfordshire ==EnglandWootton House, Bedfordshire, England* Type of Building: Small country house* Condition: * Location: Bedfordshire, England* Category: Grade II** Date Listed: May 1952 by>> The listing notes: “Simple interior with some remaining original panelling”. The stables were listed separately in August 1987 as Grade II. They date from the same time as the house and are...
Eaton Bray aka Eaton Manor, Bedfordshire, England= Pictured right: Tomb of Lady Jane Brereton Volume III of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire published in 1912, has a history of the manor as set out below. It seems reasonable to assume that this manor was simply the continuation of the holding of twelve hides, one virgate of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086...
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, England= Luton Hoo is an English country house and estate between the towns of Luton, Bedfordshire and Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Most of the estate lies within the civil parish of Hyde, Bedfordshire. The unusual name "Hoo" is a Saxon word meaning the spur of a hill, and is more commonly associated with East Anglia.==History=====Early history===Luton Hoo is not mentioned...
Dunstable Priory, Bedfordshire, England= The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.[1] St Peter’s today is a large and impressive building, but this is only the nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augustinian priory church. The monastic buildings consisted of a dormi...
Clophill & Cainhoe Manor, Bedfordshire, England=Volume II of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire, published in 1908, gives the histories of all the five manors in Clophill as far as they were known at the time. The Manor of Clophill and Cainhoe has its origins in the two manors held at the time of Domesday Book by Nigel de Albini one, as the name suggests in Clophill, which had five hi...