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Willington, Bedfordshire






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Coordinates: 52°0754N 0°2218W / 52.1316°N 0.3716°W / 52.1316; -0.3716
 

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Willington

Church of St Lawrence and the neighbouring stable building

Willington is located in Bedfordshire
Willington

Willington

Location within Bedfordshire

Population751 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTL114434
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBEDFORD
Postcode districtMK44
Dialling code01234
PoliceBedfordshire
FireBedfordshire and Luton
AmbulanceEast of England
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Bedfordshire
52°07′54N 0°22′18W / 52.1316°N 0.3716°W / 52.1316; -0.3716

Willington is a village and civil parish located in the English countyofBedfordshire. It is west of Moggerhanger on the road from SandytoBedford. The village is recorded in the Domesday BookasWelitone and as Wilitonainc. 1150, from Old English tun (homestead) among the willows,[2] and is part of the ancient hundredofWixamtree.

In the parish church of St Lawrence there is a grand 16th-century chapel.[3]

Willington is home to 16th century Willington Dovecote & Stables, both now owned by the National Trust. In addition, it is home to The Danish Camp, a cafe set along the cycle route which holds an annual fireworks display on bonfire night (5 November). This is also the location of an ancient moated site. Willington used to have a railway station on the Sandy to Bedford railway line, now part of the NCR 51 national cycle route. The village's only pub - The Crown - was built in 1904 by Newland and Nash, a Bedford Brewer, as The Crown Inn, as a direct response to a railway station finally being provided in 1903.

St Lawrence's church
Willington Stables

References

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The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  • ^ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 520. ISBN 0198691033.
  • ^ Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 106
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