Felmersham is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, on the River Great Ouse, about 7 miles (11 km) north west of Bedford. As a civil parish, it includes the hamlet of Radwell, and is sometimes known as Felmersham with Radwell, and has a population of about 800, and is circumscribed by the Great Ouse on the north, east and south. Other nearby places are Sharnbrook, Odell, Pavenham and Milton Ernest.
Felmersham with Radwell was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish within the Hundred of Willey.[2] John de Burnham, later Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, was parish priest here in the 1330s.
The Church of St Mary is located in the village.
The village gave its name to HMS Felmersham, a Ham class minesweeper.
Felmersham has no shop or Post Office but does have one public house, The Sun. Two previous pubs closed in the 1990s; The Plough in 1991 and The Six Ringers in 1995.
Felmersham supports a primary school. In 2017, Pinchmill Lower School changed to Pinchmill Primary School when the local education system changed from three tier to two tier. The school caters for children aged 5–11 (previous to 2017 it was 5–9). After leaving, most children move on to Sharnbrook Academy. The school building was opened in 1974 and took its name from the Pinchmill Islands in Sharnbrook.
Felmersham Gravel Pits nature reserve is North of the village, just over the River Great Ouse. It is understood that the pits were created by extracting sand and gravel to build local airfields in World War Two.
^"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
Felmersham is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, on the River Great Ouse, about 7 miles (11 km) north...
Elizabeth Felmersham (? – 1446) became the English abbess of the Benedictine Godstow Abbey at a time when the abbey was not well regulated. The details...
HMS Felmersham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper...
extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1906. The Wells baronetcy of Felmersham in the County of Bedford, was created in the Baronetage of the United...
past at pits which are now lakes: at Priory Country Park, Wyboston and Felmersham. The Greensand Ridge is an escarpment across the county from near Leighton...
Felmersham Gravel Pits is a 21.6-hectare (53-acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest between the villages of Felmersham and Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire...
Felmersham (1) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative F. Gibbs 583 64.2 Alliance G. Shipp 115 12.7 Independent G. Airton 114 12.6 Labour J. Yoell 96 10...
Felmersham Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative P. Barber-Lomax 842 62.4 +13.9 Liberal Democrats G. Venn 371 27.5 -16.2 Labour T. Carroll 137 10.1 +2...
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of Bedford Rural District. Other nearby places are Pavenham, Turvey, Felmersham, and Stevington. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics...
drowned attempting to swim across the River Great Ouse in Bedford. Parts of Felmersham and Turvey were also flooded. On 20 July, the M4 was closed after a landslide...
were situated in the following vills: Carlton, Chellington, Farndish, Felmersham with Radwell, Harrold, Odell, Podington with Hinwick, Sharnbrook, Thurleigh...
the Abbey. In 1435 Elizabeth Felmersham became the abbess and struggled for some years to control her community. Felmersham died in 1446 and Alice Henley...
bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917. Born in Felmersham and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was ordained in...
neighbouring village Felmersham with his wife and 2 children. He was educated at the local state schools: Pinchmill Lower School in Felmersham, Lincroft Middle...
are good examples of Spear's style at St Gregory's Canterbury (1949), Felmersham in Bedfordshire (1951), St John's in Bromley (1951), several windows in...
extant Welch of Chard 1957 Welch extant Lord Mayor of London Wells of Felmersham 1944 Wells extant Wells of Hove 1948 Wells extinct 1966 Lord Mayor of...
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