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News, history and events from the village of Eversholt in Bedfordshire.

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The statue from the war memorial has been stolen. Again. Tuesday 18 June 2019. If you have any information about this, please contact Carolyn Howell, 07971 270245. Or, Bedfordshire Police.

Click for a bigger image. This picture is in the public domain, you can copy it and publish it however you want.

Churchyard survey update

Map and index to monuments! Here

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• Eversholt Archaeology
  • The TEF Latch (or Clasp!)
• Eversholt Events
  • 1902-06-26 (Attempted) Coronation of Edward VII
  • 1953-06-02 Coronation
  • 2002-06-03 Queen’s Golden Jubilee
  • 2002-06-03 Triple Friendship Jubilee Show
  • 2011-06-05 Big Lunch
  • 2012-06-03 Diamond Jubilee and Big Lunch
  • 2012-10-06 Eversholt Church Flower Festival
  • 2012-12-31 New Year’s Eve
  • 2013-01-25 Eversholt on Three Counties Radio
  • 2014-10-05 Eversholt Church Flower Festival
  • 2016-02-18 4EverLove Festival
  • 2016-06-12 Eversholt Church Flower Festival
  • 2017-08-05 Alphabet Ball
  • 2017-10-13 Cocktail Night
  • 2017-11-18 Hedge Laying Course
• Eversholt Geography
  • 1:2500 Eversholt Maps
  • 1764 Eversholt Map
  • 1838 Charity Map
  • 1838 Tithe Map
  • 1901 Census Summary
  • 1901 OS 1:2500 map of Church End
    • Photographing Big documents
    • Photographing Documents
  • 1910 House Map
  • 1950s Charity Map
  • 19xx Six Inch Maps
  • Baulks
  • Conservation Area
  • Derivation of Eversholt
  • Evershall?
  • Footpath Change 2016
  • Manshead Hundred – Eversholt, capital of the world?
  • Mosaic Map
  • Parish Path Map
  • Postcode Map
  • Pubs
    • The Boot
    • The Deer
    • The Falcon
    • The Green Man
    • The Last
    • The Pheasant
      • James Linnell Perjury Scandal
    • The Red Lion
    • The Red Lyon
    • The Roebuck
    • The Six Bells
    • The Sportsman
  • The 1808 Enclosure Map
  • Where does the Brook go?
• Eversholt History
  • 1806 Enclosure Act
    • Google Docs Copy of Enclosure Act
    • Text Copy of Enclosure Act
  • 1833 Education Return
  • 1843 Eversholt Statistics
  • 1902 Recreation Ground Indenture
  • A History of the County of Bedford: Eversholt
  • A Short history of Eversholt
  • Ada White and her child
  • An IRA Arms Dump in Eversholt!
  • Berry End History
    • Berry End Bungalow
    • Berry End Cottages
    • Berry End Farm
  • Berrystead History
  • Boy Scouts in Eversholt
  • Brook End History
  • Business in the 1960s
  • Charity
    • 1786 Charity Return
    • 1822 Charity Commissioners’ Report
    • Charity Reports
    • The 1878 Document
    • The 1887 Document
    • The 1903 Document
    • The 1948 Document
  • Church End History
    • Church Farm
    • Linden House, or the New Rectory, or maybe Eversholt House, or Mr. Sandys’s House!
    • Post Office
      • G Bence Smith
    • School House
    • The Green Man
    • The Pinckneys of Church End
  • Church History
    • An Architectural Critique
    • Bell Pictures
    • Bell Removal 2017
    • Bell Report
    • Bell Retuning
    • Bellringing
    • Church Art
      • Evangelists and Prophets
      • Four Ideas
      • Musicians
      • Tower and Chancel Arches
    • Church Building
    • Church Clock
    • Church Snippets
    • Churchyard
      • 18 Dead Children
      • 1913: The Weight-Matthews Survey of Eversholt Churchyard
      • Churchyard: 1864 Act of Consecration
      • Churchyard: 1864 Conveyance
      • Eversholt Churchyard Survey 2019
      • New Churchyard Survey
        • Surveying the Churchyard
    • Commemorative Plaques
      • Plaque of People Praying
      • Plaque to Elizabeth Hyde
      • Plaque to Frances Henley Ongley
      • Plaque to Frank Wild
      • Plaque to James Reed
      • Plaque to Lucy Monoux
      • Plaque to Sarah Hodgkinson
    • Confiscation! The dissolution inventory
    • Eversholt Church in 1846
    • Eversholt Church, the Hospitallers, and Dunstable Priory
    • Organ
    • Pictures of the church
    • Rectors
      • Edward Bune
      • George Edwards
      • Gilbert de Eversholt
      • Henry de Sewell
      • Henry Matthew
      • James Reed
      • Johannes Barkeby or John Barkeby
      • John De Staunfordham or John de Stamfordham
      • John Gibson
      • John Ramridge
      • John Sandys, rector of Eversholt
      • John Slow
      • John Wickham
      • Luke Morgan
      • Martin Williams
      • Maurice Faulkner
      • Michael O’Clare
      • Mike Saunders
      • Pusey Hancocke
      • Rector Records
      • Robert de Useflete or Robert Ouseflet or Ousefleet or Usflete
      • Robert Gascoyne
      • Thomas Croyser
      • Thomas Dutton
      • Thomas Vyncent
      • William Escott Collins
        • Photo Album of William Escott Collins
      • William George Dean-Pitt Mercer
      • William Hyde
      • William Samuel Baker
    • War Memorial
    • War Memorial Stories
  • Civil War
  • Cricket Bar Feud
  • Diphtheria in Eversholt
  • Directories
    • 1806 Magna Britannia
    • 1818 Description
    • 1847 Post Office Directory
    • 1862 Beds & Hunts Directory
    • 1862 directory
    • 1864 Post Office Directory
    • 1867 Melville Directory
    • 1869 Post Office Directory
    • 1876 Harrod’s Directory
    • 1877 Post Office Directory
    • 1885 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1890 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1894 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1898 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1903 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1906 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1910 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1914 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1920 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1924 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1928 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1929 Description
    • 1931 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1936 Kelly’s Directory
    • 1940 Kelly’s Directory
  • Domesday Eversholt
  • Don Impey’s Story
  • E R Lovell
  • Evacuees in Eversholt
  • Eversholt Band
  • Eversholt crime 1803-1869
    • Henry Millard, William Sturman, Lydia Sanders
  • Eversholt Friendly Society
    • Rule Book, 1896
    • Rule Book, 1930
  • Eversholt Parish Registers
    • Eversholt Baptisms
    • Eversholt Burials
    • Eversholt Marriages
  • Eversholtians in trouble: the Atslows
  • Fostering Children from Wandsworth and Clapham
  • Hills End History
    • Barbara Massey at the Old Rectory
  • Home Guard
  • Labourer’s Wages
  • Land for sale, 1806
  • Linden
    • Charlotte Smart Will
    • Linden Snippets
    • Lucy Monoux Will
    • Philip Monoux Will, 1805
    • Some strange letters
    • William Lynn Smart Will
  • Mill Farm History
  • Millennium
  • Misc
    • Eversholt man second in ploughing match
  • Miscellaneous Snippets
  • Mr Korolkoff’s Cossack Troupe
  • Murder In Eversholt
    • William Chambers: Arrest
    • William Chambers: Execution
    • William Chambers: Trial
  • Out Of Town
  • Parish Council
    • 18 October 1929 Parish Council Report
    • 1932-10-05 Parish Council Report
    • 30 April 1920 Parish Council Report
  • Particular Baptists
  • People
    • A T W Penn
    • Alfred Thurston Mills
    • Andrew Ducarel Morrice
    • Anne Amelia Cleeve
      • Bourchier Cleeve
    • At the Abbey in the 1960s
    • Benjamin Eustace Wild
    • Benjamin Wild
    • Cecil Brett, Eversholt’s Baker
    • Charles Godfrey Morris Place
    • Charles Serle Lloyd
    • Christmas about 1946
    • Cricket
    • Frank Wild
      • The Quest For Frank Wild
    • Hannah Johns
    • Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
    • John Bolding
    • John Chance
    • John Martin 1791-1855
    • Mark Wynter
    • Phoebe Florence Townsend – or maybe Sally Abbiss?
    • Poulton
    • Sandys
    • School photos
    • Some hats, with ladies beneath
    • Some Very Obscure Ladies
    • Somebody’s Christmas Party.
    • Somebody’s Party. But whose?
    • Stephen Hastings
    • W C Williams
  • Pictures from the Green Man
  • Pollbooks
    • 1784 Pollbook
    • 1832 Pollbook
  • Poor Law and Workhouse
    • Eversholt Workhouse Scandal
    • Martha Taylor
    • Sarah Deacon
      • Where did Sarah Deacon Live?
  • Postcards
    • Joyce’s Postcard
  • School History
  • School in the news
  • School Lane history
  • Sparrow Club
  • Swimming Pool
  • Swimming Pool History
  • The Eversholt Computer Language
  • The Hamlets of Eversholt
  • The school we never had!
  • Thunderstorm of May 17th, 1918
  • Tithes 1837
  • Tithes 1923
  • Tragedies
    • 1930-10-19 Peter Barr
    • 1932-05-11 Ernest Frederick Fleckney
    • 1933-08-21 Frederick Francis Percy Smith
    • 1934-02-07 Michael Gerald Phillimore
    • 1936-02-27 Norman David Saunders
    • 1936-08-17 George Woodland
    • 1937-04-01 George H Carr
    • 1937-07-08 Gwendoline Violet Harris
    • 1938-12-24 Frank Kingsley
    • 1941-04-27 Elaine Edwards
    • 1944-08-06 Lily French
    • 1953-06-29 George Walker
    • 1954-06-25 Ellen Turvey
    • 1960-08-19 Bernard William Middleton
    • 1962-06-01 Evelyn Coghlan
  • Tyrells End History
    • Balloon Landing
    • Francis Chapman’s home
    • Linden Lodge
    • Mary Ann Bunker, Linden Lodge Gatekeeper
    • Tyrells End house numbers, and whatever became of Rush Hill?
  • Water End
    • New Water End
  • Witts End history
    • Pictures
    • The Steevens Family and The Causeway
    • Winifred Bunker and the cottage at The Close
    • Witts End Close
    • Witts End Farm
  • Woburn Sheepshearing
  • Women’s Institute
• Eversholt Wildlife
  • Bird Ringing
  • Fungi
  • Hedgehogs
  • Local sightings
  • New sightings for 2015
  • Nicola’s Lament
  • wild bird food for sale
• Eversholt2
  • Display Test
  • Eversholt Crash Map
  • Feedback Form
  • Poll test
• Links to Eversholt Information
• Small Ads
  • Local seamstress and dressmaker
  • Wild bird food for sale