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EVERSHOLT
"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.
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by Colin Hinson ©2013
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- The 1851 Census Index for Eversholt can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 5, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
- There are photographs and a description of St John the Baptist on the Bedfordshire Parish Churches website.
- Church of England
- 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]
- Church of England
- The parish record transcripts for St. John the Baptist are available on microfiche for the period 1628-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
- A transcript of the Eversholt parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- A transcript of the Eversholt parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- A transcript of the Eversholt parish entries from The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1866-9
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Eversholt to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP990329 (Lat/Lon: 51.985745, -0.559788), Eversholt which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- 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