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Eaton Bray Rural District
Eaton Bray was a rural district in Bedfordshire, England from 1894 to 1933. History The district had its origins in the Leighton Buzzard Rural Sanitary District. This had been created under the Public Health Acts of 1872 and 1875, giving public health and local government responsibilities for rural areas to the existing Boards of Guardians of Poor Law Unions. Under the Local Government Act 1894, Rural Sanitary Districts became Rural Districts from 28 December 1894, and rural sanitary districts which straddled county boundaries were to be split so that separate rural districts were created for the parts in each county. The Bedfordshire part of the Leighton Buzzard Rural Sanitary District became the Eaton Bray Rural District, whilst the Buckinghamshire part became the Linslade Rural District (renamed Wing Rural District in 1897 after Linslade itself was made an urban district). The link with the Poor Law Union continued, with all the elected councillors of both Eaton Bray and Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural District
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Administrative county, administrative counties.__TOC__ England and Wales In England and Wales they were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act 1894) along with Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts. They replaced the earlier system of sanitary districts (themselves based on poor law unions, but not replacing them). Rural districts had elected rural district councils (RDCs), which inherited the functions of the earlier sanitary districts, but also had wider authority over matters such as local planning, council house, council housing, and playgrounds and cemeteries. Matters such as education and major roads were the responsibility of county councils. Until 1930 the rural district councillors were also poor law gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath And Reach
Heath and Reach is an English village and civil parish near the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire. It is north of Leighton Buzzard and south of Woburn and adjoins the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. Nearby places are Leighton-Linslade, Great Brickhill and the Duke of Bedford's Woburn Abbey, Woburn Safari Park and Woburn Golf Club. St Leonard's Church dates from the 1580s. Located from central London, the village is from the M1 and benefits from a non-stop fast train from nearby Leighton Buzzard to Euston in just 30 minutes. History There was a sizeable Roman settlement at Heath and Reach. Fragments of pottery, coins and traces of buildings were found in 1971 near Overend Green Farm, by the Roman road, Watling Street. The village was originally two small hamlets in the Royal Manor of Leighton and records are found for Heath in 1220 and Reach in 1216. Heath and Reach was part of the parish of Leighton and was the property of the King of England. In 1539 a Muster Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire is an English ceremonial county which lies between approximately 25 miles and 55 miles (or approximately 40 and 90 kilometres) north of central London. Anglo-Saxon Bedfordshire Early 5th century Saxon burial sites have been discovered at Kempston and Sandy, two Bedfordshire towns on the River Great Ouse and its tributary the River Ivel, as well as at Luton, in the south of the county on the River Lea (a tributary of the Thames). These sites are all in the vicinity of Roman towns, suggesting that these may have been the site of Saxon '' foederati'' employed by Romano-British inhabitants to protect their towns. A seventh century settlement at Stratton, near Biggleswade has also been found. The area may have remained part of a British enclave until the Battle of Bedcanford (Bedford) in 571, when Cuthwulf inflicted a severe defeat on the Britons and took the towns of Eynsham, Aylesbury, Benson and Limbury. This area may have coincided with the "''Chilternsetn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leighton Buzzard Urban District
The town of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England was administered as a Local board of health, Local Government District from 1891 to 1894 and an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban District from 1894 to 1965. Formation Prior to 1891 the town had formed part of the Leighton Buzzard Sanitary district, Rural Sanitary District, which had been created under the Public Health Act 1875, Public Health Acts of 1872 and 1875 covering the same area as the Leighton Buzzard Poor law union, Poor Law Union. On 7 July 1891 a Local Government District was established for the town, covering the township of Leighton Buzzard (being that part of the ancient parish of Leighton Buzzard excluding the hamlets of Billington, Bedfordshire, Billington, Eggington, Heath and Reach, and Stanbridge, Bedfordshire, Stanbridge), removing the town from the Leighton Buzzard Rural Sanitary District. The first meeting of the new Local Board was held on 27 August 1891 at the Old Town Hall, Leighton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Act 1929
The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The Act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boards of guardians, transferring their powers to local authorities. It also gave county councils increased powers over highways, and made provisions for the restructuring of urban and rural districts as more efficient local government areas. Poor Law reform Under the Act all boards of guardians for poor law unions were abolished, with responsibility for public assistance transferred to Public Assistance Committees of county councils and county boroughs. The local authorities took over infirmaries and fever hospitals, while the workhouses became public assistance institutions. Later legislation was to remove these functions from the control of councils to other public bodies: the National Assistance Board and the National Health Service. The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linslade Urban District
Linslade was an urban district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1897 to 1965. Origins When parish and district councils were established in December 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, the parish of Linslade was included in the Linslade Rural District, created from the parts of the Leighton Buzzard Rural Sanitary District and Berkhamsted Rural Sanitary District which were in Buckinghamshire. Shortly after the new districts were established, the process began for making the parish of Linslade its own urban district, which came into effect on 1 October 1897. With Linslade being removed from the rural district which bore its name, the Linslade Rural District was renamed at the same time, becoming instead Wing Rural District. The short-lived Linslade Parish Council was therefore replaced by Linslade Urban District Council, which held its first meeting on 2 October 1897. Henry Finch was appointed the first chairman of the council, having previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilsworth
Tilsworth is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire. It lies to the north west of Dunstable, and the Roman Watling Street ( A5) forms the north east boundary of the parish of 1,200 acres (4.8 km2). The village lies on the gault clay, where springs well up just south of a gentle gravelly ridge. A large proportion of the area is still farmland. The Domesday Book calls the place "Pileworde" because of a misunderstanding of the symbol for "th", and the name probably means "Thyfel's homestead". A further alternative spelling is "Tyllesworth", in a legal record, dated 1470, mentioning Thomas Carter, a husbandman of the village. Stanbridge, a larger village, is a close neighbour to the west and some organisations, such as the Women's Institute, are combined. The medieval All Saints' Church, built of Totternhoe stone, stands in a prominent position on the hillside, and can be seen from a distance when floodlit at night.B. B. West, "Bedfordshire sketch-book CLXXX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanbridge, Bedfordshire
Stanbridge is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire which lies east of Leighton Buzzard. It also borders the Bedfordshire villages of Hockliffe, Eggington, Tilsworth, Totternhoe and Billington. There was a windmill to the east of Mill Road, in the north of the village, that is marked on early Ordnance Survey maps. To the west of Mill Road, still standing, is a later windmill that has been converted to a three-story house. This has recently had a new dome fitted to its roof. St John the Baptist Parish Church is also located in the village. Stanbridge had its own railway station, until it was closed in the 1960s by Lord Beeching. This was to the south of the village, at Stanbridgeford on the Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable LNWR line. The eastern part of the old line has been utilised as a footpath to Sewell and Dunstable; the western part is now part of the Leighton Buzzard Southern Bypass. RAF Stanbridge was built on land that was in the neighbouring parish of Billingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hockliffe
Hockliffe is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire on the crossroads of the A5 road which lies upon the course of the Roman road known as Watling Street and the A4012 and B5704 roads. It is about four miles east of Leighton Buzzard. Nearby places are Heath and Reach, Eggington, Stanbridge, Battlesden, Toddington, Tebworth and Tilsworth. Hockliffe is in Heath and Reach ward which sends a councillor to Central Bedfordshire Council. The ward includes the villages of Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Eggington, Stanbridge, Tilsworth, Tebworth and Wingrave. The ward was created in 2011 and has since been represented by Councillor ark Versallion Clipstone Brook There was a term applied from the 18th century which was "as straight as Hockley Brook" because of the meandering bends of the said brook. The correct name of the brook is the Clipstone Brook. The first field (though in the parish of Chalgrave) is still known by locals as the Old Ride, due to the original crossing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eggington
Egginton – or Eggington as it is now known – is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, about three miles east of Leighton Buzzard. Apart from the village itself, the parish also includes the hamlet (place), hamlet of Briggington on the road to Leighton Buzzard, and the hamlet of Clipstone, Bedfordshire, Clipstone to the north of Clipstone Brook. The hamlet of Leedon was in Eggington parish, but became part of Leighton Buzzard when the parish boundary was redrawn in the early 1980s. The village itself is relatively small – with some 190 residents living in 94 houses. It now has an Indian cuisine, Indian restaurant, a church (building), church and a village hall, formerly the village school (which closed in 1984). The Congregational chapel was pulled down in the 1970s: the village shop also closed in that era, and the old Methodist chapel was converted to a dwelling in 1988. Nearby places ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eaton Bray
Eaton Bray is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is situated about three miles south-west of the town of Dunstable and is part of a semi-rural area which extends into the parish of Edlesborough. In the 2011 United Kingdom census the population of the parish was recorded as 2,585. Toponym The toponym ''Eaton'' is common in England, being derived from the Old English ', meaning "farm by a river". Descent of the manor The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the manor as ''Eitone'', one of the numerous holdings throughout England of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent, uterine brother of King William the Conqueror. It later escheated to the crown. In 1205 the manor of Eaton (with many others) was granted to William I de Cantilupe (d.1239), steward of the household to King John (1199–1216), whereupon it became the ''caput'' of the feudal barony of Eaton. The grant was for knight-service of one knight and was in exchange for the manor of Coxwell in Berkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalgrave
Chalgrave is a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The hamlets of Tebworth and Wingfield are in the west of the parish, with the church and manor in the east. Nearby places are Toddington (to the north), Chalton (to the east), Houghton Regis (to the south), and Hockliffe (to the west). Before 1929, the parish also included part of the village of Hockliffe.Stephen Coleman, ''Chalgrave'', Bedfordshire County Council (Bedfordshire Parish Surveys, Historic Landscape and Archaeology, 6), 1986, , pp. 7, 15, 17-22. Chalgrave is part of the ward of 'Heath and Reach' which sends a Councillor to Central Bedfordshire Council. The ward includes the villages of Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Eggington, Stanbridge, Tilsworth, Tebworth, and Wingrave. The ward was created in 2011 and has since been represented by Councillor Mark Versallion. Chalgrave church and manor The location now known as Chalgrave, just south of Toddington, was called East Coten ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
