Bletsoe is a village and
civil parish
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in
Bedfordshire
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, England. It is on the
A6, and about eight miles north of
Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...
. The village has a small park, the former site of
Bletsoe Castle
Bletsoe Castle was a late medieval fortified manor house in the village of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
Details
Bletsoe Castle was created by John Pateshull, who received a licence to crenellate an existing manor house on the east side of Bletsoe in 13 ...
and a church. Nearby places are
Sharnbrook
Sharnbrook is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England.
The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish within the Hundred of Willey but was probably first developed in Saxon tim ...
,
Milton Ernest
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,
Riseley,
Thurleigh
Thurleigh is a village and civil parish in north Bedfordshire, England.
History
Excavations have shown evidence the locality was occupied in the Iron-Age, Roman and Saxon periods.
In Domesday of 1086 the Middle English orthography as to bot ...
,
Odell,
Souldrop
Souldrop is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Knotting and Souldrop, in the Bedford district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England, located near the border with Northamptonshire. Nearby places are, Sharnbrook, ...
, and
Swineshead. The nearest town to Bletsoe is
Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...
.
The small
hamlet
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of
Bourne End borders Bletsoe and is part of the civil parish. In 1086, Bletsoe parish was within the ancient
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of Buckelowe.
Open Domesday Online: Bletsoe
accessed 1 Jul 2017 The parish was added to the Hundred of Willey
The Hundred of Willey is a historical land division, a hundred in the northwest corner of Bedfordshire, England. Its northwestern boundary is the county border with Northamptonshire, and its southwestern boundary the border with Buckinghamshire. So ...
when the ancient hundred was parceled out.
Bletsoe Castle
Bletsoe Castle was a late medieval fortified manor house in the village of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
Details
Bletsoe Castle was created by John Pateshull, who received a licence to crenellate an existing manor house on the east side of Bletsoe in 13 ...
was the birthplace of Margaret Beaufort
Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: or ; 31 May 1441/43 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch.
A descendant of ...
. She was the mother of Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII
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.
References
External links
Bletsoe pages
at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service
The Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service is a county record office, holding archival material associated with Bedfordshire and Luton. Established in 1913 by George Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) as the Bedfordshire Record Office, it wa ...
Villages in Bedfordshire
Civil parishes in Bedfordshire
Borough of Bedford
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