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Also known as Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire

Bolnhurst is a small village in the civil parish of Bolnhurst and Keysoe, in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. The village is about north-northeast of Bedford town centre and about west of St Neots.

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Bolnhurst
Region
England
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United Kingdom
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MK44
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Bolnhurst is a small village in the civil parish of Bolnhurst and Keysoe, in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. The village is about north-northeast of Bedford town centre and about west of St Neots.

==History== The name is derived from the Old English bula-hyrst, meaning "wooded hill where bulls are kept". Bolnhurst grew up around the main road between Bedford and Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire. the Domesday Book of 1086 lists it as Bulehestre or Bolehestre. At that time the manor was held by Thorney Abbey. The Abbey retained Bolnhurst until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.

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