Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RENHOLD

RENHOLD, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Bedford; on an affluent of the river Ouse, 3¾ miles N E of Bedford r. station. Post-town, Bedford. Acres, 2, 165. Real property, £3, 336. Pop., 513. Houses, 92. The manor, with Howbury Hall, belongs to Capt. F.Polhill Turner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £126.* Patron, Capt. F.Polhill Turner. The church is mainly later English, with a tower; was restored in 1863; and contains an altar-tomb of 1510 to W. Wayte, and 4 ancient marble monuments to the Polhills and the Beechers. There are an endowed school with £28 a year, and charities £11.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Renhold AP/CP       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Renhold

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