EVERSHOLT
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"EVERSHOLT, a parish in the hundred of Manshead, county Bedford, 2 miles
S.E. of Woburn, its post town. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of
Ely, value £600. The church is an old edifice, dedicated to St. John the
Baptist, and has an ancient font and several monuments. The parochial
endowments produce about £140 per annum, £10 of which are for education.
There is a National school for boys, girls, and infants. The Duke of
Bedford is lord of the manor. Eversholt is a scattered village and so
the following descriptions take Witts End as being the centre of the village:"
The 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Eversholt
is to be found on a supplementary page.
- Brook End
- Church End
- Froxfield
- Higher Berry End
- Higher Rads End
- Hills End
- Lower Berry End
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- Lower Rads End
- Potters End
- Tyrells End
- Wakes End
- Water End
- Witts End
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[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- Church of England
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The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles and a western embattled tower containing 6 bells : the north aisle projects one bay beyond the nave, and opens into the chancel by a Decorated arch, on one side of which is a piscina: there is another in the south aisle and a third in the chancel : the monuments include one to the Hon. Frances Ongley, eldest daughter of Samuel Henley, first Baron Ongley, of Old Warden, a title which became extinct in 1877 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Hyde, sister of the Bishop of St, David's, and Mrs. Sarah. Hodgkinson : on the wall of the vestry is a boar's head carved in stone, the name Eversholt signifying " the hold of the wild boar : the church underwent a complete restoration in 1864, under the direction of the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. at a cost of about £3,000, and will seat 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1628.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
- The BFHS Project in conjunction with Roll of Honour contains the
Eversholt War Memorial transcription for WW1 and WW2 with details of the men found on it
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