HOLWELL
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"HOLWELL, a parish in the hundred of Clifton, county Bedford, 3½ miles north-west
of Hitchin, its post town, and 4½ south of Shefford. The parish is of small
extent, and is situated near the river Hiz. The tithes were commuted for
120 acres of land under an Enclosure Act in 1802. The living is a rectory*
in the diocese of Ely, value £120. The church, which was repaired in 1845,
is a stone edifice dedicated to St. Peter. The charities produce about £105
per annum, chiefly the proceeds of a property at East Greenwich, bequeathed
to the parish by Mr. Rand in 1706. By order of the Court of Chancery, the
accumulations of this fund were applied in 1831 to the building of a
school, and a house for the incumbent. Here are almshouses for six inmates.
Frederick Delme Radcliffe, Esq., is lord of the manor."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- St. Peter's Church, Holwell.
- Church of England
- The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone, originally Perpendicular, but much modernised, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and 2 bells : there is a small and curious brass to Robert Wodehouse, priest, 1515, a benefactor to the church: the church was restored in 1877, at a cost of £2,500, and reopened May 8th, 1879, by the Bishop of Ely. The register dates from the year 1560.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
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