Sharnbrook
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Sharnbrook is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, situated around north-west of Bedford town centre.
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Place details
- Locality
- Radwell
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,795
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Sharnbrook
- UK place.population
- 2,293
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Bedford
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Bedfordshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Bedfordshire
- UK place.post_town
- BEDFORD
- UK place.postcode_district
- MK44
- UK place.postcode_area
- MK
- UK place.dial_code
- 01234
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP994596
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bedford
- Population
- 2293
- Image
- St-Peter's-Church-Sharnbrook.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01234
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- Sharnbrook
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- Sharnbrook
- OS grid reference
- TL001885
- postal code
- MK44
- P12749
- Nubia
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Sharnbrook is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, situated around north-west of Bedford town centre.
The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish within the Hundred of Willey but was probably first developed in Saxon times. The oldest surviving building, St Peter's Church, is Norman. The name is believed to be derived from the Anglo Saxon word sharn meaning dung. Many of the older buildings in the village are constructed of the local oolitic limestone, also used in other traditional north Bedfordshire settlements.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sharnbrook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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