Kensworth (Herts > Beds)
Historically this parish was in Hertfordshire
Adjacent Parishes: Caddington (Beds), Dunstable (Beds), Houghton Regis (Beds), Studham, Tottenhoe (Beds), Whipsnade (Beds)
It was in the Dacorum Hundred and the Luton Union
The Historic Parishes of Caddinton and Kensworth
KENSWORTH, a parish in the hundred of Dacorum, county of Hertford, 2½ miles (N.W.) from Market-Street, containing 615 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9.13.4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London. The church, dedicated to St Mary, has some portions in the early style of English architecture, with some of later date: the capital of the western pillars exhibits the fable of the Wolf and the Crane on one side, and that of the Eagle and the Hare on the other: the doorway within the tower has capitals representing birds and human heads; both doorways are built of Caen stone. A school for teaching sixteen poor children to read was endowed, in 1754, by Mr. and Mrs. Burgis, with a rent-charge: the present income is £12.10. per annum.
From the Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831
In 1897 Kensworth was transferred to Bedfordshire
Book: Caddington & Kensworth
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Page updated December 2007