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POTSGROVE (or Pottesgrove) is a village and parish, lying between and about a mile from each of the roads from Dunstable to Fenny Stratford and Newport Pagnell, 5 miles south from Woburn Sands station on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the Northwestern railway, 2½ south from Woburn and 6½ north-east from Leighton Buzzard, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Manshead, petty sessional division and union of Woburn, county court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Fleete, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely.
The soil is loam; subsoil, clay and limestone and rock in places. The chief crops are wheat and pasture. The area is 3,513 acres ; rateable value, £3,293 ; the population in 1891 was 504 in the civil and 424 in the ecclesiastical parish. HINWICK is a hamlet, 1 mile south.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
The 1851 Census Index for Podington can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 1, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Mary, a small edifice of the 14th century, consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western belfry of wood, containing 3 bells: the chancel retains a Decorated rood-screen, and on the north side a sepulchral recess with an obtuse foliated arch: there are two good two-light Decorated windows on the north and south of the nave with remains of stained glass: the east window and north doorway are Perpendicular: there are some ancient brasses to the Saunders family: the church was restored in 1881, at a cost of £1,450, and affords 90 sittings. The register dates from the year 1663.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
There is a Wesleyan chapel at Sheep lane.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for the Virgin Mary are available on microfiche for the period 1663-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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