Kempston is a town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. Once known as the largest village in England, Kempston is now a town with its own town council. It has a population of about 20,000, and together with Bedford, it forms an urban area with around 100,000 inhabitants, which is the sole significant urban area in the Borough of Bedford. Kempston serves principally as a dormitory town for Bedford.
Population: 19,873
Latitude: 52° 06' 57.56" N
Longitude: 0° 30' 1.58" E
The Museum of Cambridge, formerly known as the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, is a museum located in Castle Street in central Cambridge, England. It is housed in eight rooms in the former White Horse Inn, a public house that closed in 1934. The mus…
Bury Mount Motte is the remains of an earthwork motte and bailey fortification or ancient castle, and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Buntingford Manor House in the town of Buntingford, in Hertfordshire, England was originally the home of the Lord of the Manor.
Boycott is a hamlet in the parish of Stowe in north Buckinghamshire, England.
Boughton is the name of a planned station on the Northampton & Lamport Railway, which is built on the former Northampton to Market Harborough line. It will be situated at the southern end of line adjacent to the former Boughton level crossing on the…
Blunham was a railway station on the Varsity Line which served the small village of the same name in Bedfordshire.
Blakesley was a railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJ) which served the Northamptonshire village of Blakesley between 1873 and 1962. It was linked to nearby Blakesley Hall by a miniature railway which ran from …
Biddlesden was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147 by Arnold de Bosco (de Bois), steward to the Earl of Leicester. An abbot was deposed for now unknown reasons in 1192 and in the 14th to 15th centuries there was a long running dispute with the parish…
Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge is an escarpment which runs through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire in the south and east of England. A pathway runs along the ridge from Leighton Buzzard to Gamlingay. In 2009, the Greensand Ridge Loca…
Barnwell Priory was an Augustinian priory at Barnwell in Cambridgeshire, founded as a house of Canons Regular.
The lost village of Althorp is within the grounds of the Althorp estate in the English county of Northamptonshire. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book. In the 15th century, the manor was held by the Catesby family who were probably responsi…
All Saints' Church is an ecumenical church located in Loughton, Milton Keynes, England.
The 4C Array is a cylindrical paraboloid radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, near Cambridge, England. It is similar in design to the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope. It is 450 m long, 20 m wide, with a second, moveab…
All Saints’ Church, Bow Brickhill is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Bow Brickhill, Berkshire.
Wootton Broadmead Halt was a railway station on the Varsity Line which served the settlement of Wootton Broadmead near Stewartby in Bedfordshire, England.
Wootton Brook is a tributary of the River Nene which runs through Northamptonshire. The brook begins south of Great Houghton flowing south west through Preston Deanery and then east in the valley between Collingtree, Grange Park and East Hunsbury. I…
Stratford and Wolverton Rural District (1894–1919), Stratford and Wolverton Urban District (1919–20) and Wolverton Urban District (1920–1974) were local government districts in Buckinghamshire, England, covering the town of Wolverton and its environ…
Winslow was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974. The rural district took over the responsibilities of the disbanded Winslow Rural Sanitary District. It was split between the borough of Milton K…