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The Tempsford Heritage Trail helps you enjoy some of St. Peter’s Church Walk back along Mill Lane to Church Street and 4 7 the history in the parish of Tempsford. The walk is mainly is built on the site turn left. On the right is the Millennium Garden focused on the village but there are two additional routes of the Saxon church Sanctuary. This area was originally the entrance to which take you into the surrounding countryside to which was destroyed in Tempsford Hall but was cut off from the Hall in 1962 further explore the local history. 1010. Records show that when the A1 trunk road was built. The area was by 1129 a Norman church neglected for over 30 years but in 1999 local residents The main walk around the village is suitable for all abilities had been constructed transformed it into a wildlife sanctuary and woodland and is a 1.8 miles / 3km linear route. There are wonderful which the Lord of the walk. The garden is open all year round and the history views across to the and some beautiful Manor, Robert De Carum, of the site is described on signs in the garden. examples of buildings through the centuries. For a longer presented to the Priory Continue along Church Street. On the left is walk, the entire route with the two additional walks is of St. Neots. In the late 8 Ouse Farm . This 15th century farmhouse was 7.3 miles / 11.7km taking you along the picturesque river 13th century, building once part of a larger mansion house three times its banks and out to the old WWII Tempsford Airfield. work began with the current size. Sir Gillies Payne purchased the estate St. Peter’s Church tower, the north west in 1769 and built a new mansion, Tempsford Hall . side chapel and the Lady The old mansion was demolished around 1828 by Chapel. Most of the nave was built in the 14th century. William Stuart, leaving one wing of the former house. PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE The Church was restored in 1621 and again in 1874. VILLAGE OF TEMPSFORD, During the 1874 restoration, much of the medieval work Walk to the 9 was destroyed as were some frescoes depicting the end of the road defeat of the Danes by King . towards the Stuart Gannock Castle is a medieval moated site Memorial Hall . 1 Directly opposite constructed between 1250 and 1350 AD. The 5 The Hall was built in The Wheatsheaf pub is the Wheatsheaf site is owned by Bedfordshire County Council and is 1924 and presented public house probably a scheduled ancient monument. It is believed to have to the village in memory built in the late 17th been built on the same spot as an earlier Danish of William Esme century. It would have fortress referred to in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle and Montagu Stuart, only been a very busy public dated 921 AD. child of William and house in the days of Millicent Stuart of Return to Church Street and turn left. Opposite the horse and carriage 2 Tempsford Hall, and in is Church Farm . The house was renovated and is still popular memory of the fourteen around 1775 and the main farmhouse is 100 years older. with passing travellers. Tempsford men who lost To the right of the farmhouse is the Old Maltings , Stuart Memorial Hall their lives in the WWI. probably the oldest building in the village. It was once Opposite the Wheatsheaf pub is Mill Lane . used as the village school until the Lord of the Manor 6 Through the trees across the A1 you may see The road leads you to Tempsford Mill , passing 10 built a school in the village in 1869. Tempsford Hall in the distance. This is now the Old Rectory which dates back to the 15th century, the headquarters of Kier Group Ltd. William Stuart Walking towards the with Victorian and 20th century additions. The next Gannock House 3 purchased the estate in 1824 but the Hall was Church you will come property is Church Barn . This 15th century building, destroyed by a fire in 1898. The Hall you see today to Gannock House on your which once stood in Church Farm’s yard, was renovated was built in 1903. left, a typical timber-framed in 1988. Further on there is a 17th century thatched 15th century dwelling, which cottage, one of a pair of cottages originally standing here. Continuing north, find the old Tempsford village 11 was once an inn called The At the bottom of the lane is Tempsford Mill and the school and school master’s house , built in 1869 White Hart. Situated on the mill owner’s house. It was originally a flour mill which by the lord of the manor William Stuart. The school was original Great North Road, burnt down in the late 1800s; it was subsequently leased to a board of governors and trustees until the it would have been a busy used as a timber mill by the Tempsford Estate, but 1970s when it was taken over by the education hostelry in the 17th-18th is no longer in use. authority. In 1983 the school closed after 114 years centuries. providing education to children in the village. Further north, The Number 51 was originally a public house called Number 88 is Pyghtle Farmhouse, formerly an 12 15 23 Anchor Hotel was The Black Horse dating back beyond 1837. The pub estate house. In 1979 this 16th century farmhouse built by the Stuart family stood where the front garden is now and the current was restored by the owners. It was once used as farm in 1831. The descendants building was built in 1933, The Black Horse public house workers’ cottages and has had many alterations over of the Stuart family sold closed in 1967. the years. Some of the timbers used in the construction the Anchor in the 1970s of the property were probably taken from a much larger Number 53 was built in the late 19th century on to Hamilton Taverns, who dwelling, possibly the Old Brays Manor (which once 16 the site of four cottages. Peter Addington was the later sold it to Scottish stood near the entrance of Station Road), dismantled village blacksmith here in the late 19th century and and Newcastle breweries. in the mid 15th to early 16th century. sold the business in 1906 to the Wilson family, who Behind the Anchor Hotel continued the business into the 1960s. Old Biggin is Ferry Cottage , formerly 24 Riverside path and Wesleyan Chapel Farmhouse and the Ferry Inn public The Tempsford Wesleyan Chapel is the oldest the Anchor Hotel 17 dovecote is a wonderful house. Methodist chapel in the St. Neots area and is still in use today. The building was completed in 1804 with old farmhouse built in For a riverside walk (1.5miles / 2.4km) take the path a Sunday school building added to the rear in 1878. three stages between from the pub car park down to the river passing Ferry Services are still held here every Sunday. the 17th - 19th century. Cottage on your right and leading to a footbridge. Cross The property (until the Number 59 (Penny Farthing Cottage) was once the river via the footbridge and turn left following the 18 late 1980s) has always path until you meet a concrete road. Cross the road the village butcher’s shop. The cottage was probably been a farm and the and ditch keeping left and follow the path which leads built in the mid 18th century with the shop section to dovecote, which is still to Roxton Lock. Cross the river over the weir and follow the left being added in the late 19th century. The yard in remarkably good the waymarked route along the until you get at the rear was used for slaughtering the animals and condition, is probably to a bridge. Walk over the bridge and follow the footpath storing the carcases. The butchers shop ceased trading of 17th century design. into the farmyard of Ouse Farm and continue until in the mid 1980s. The property was sold you meet Church Street. Take a left to return to the Number 61 was formerly the White Hart public by the Tempsford Estate 19 footbridge over the A1. house, dating back to 1830. The last pint was in 1986 and is now a private house. Cross the footbridge (from which Tempsford Hall pulled in the spring of 1992 and the property was 13 A new farmhouse was built to replace the original to the east and the flood meadows of the River sold in November 1993. and this stands to the left of the dovecote. Great Ouse can be seen) over the A1 and proceed along The Old Bakery is a lovely old part timber framed Station Road. 20 The origins of Mossbury Manor can be traced house which was probably built in the late 17th 25 century. Around 1910, a draper’s shop occupied part back to the Doomsday Survey of 1086. Tempsford The village shop, now number 49 , was open from 14 of the building, as well as a bakery. was then made up of four manors, eventually becoming 1905 to 1989. The building dates from the 1860s one. The original manor house has long since and was built on the site of previous cottages. Number 65 is Clematis Cottage. It is mainly of 21 disappeared and we can only assume that the property 17th century construction with 19th and 20th now bearing the name was built on the site of the century additions. The cottage was for many years Roxton Lock former manor. The farmhouse we see today probably the home of the Lewin family, who were the village dates back to the 17th century. It has had many thatchers. alterations in recent years since the Tempsford Estate In 1848 William Cope built number 69 and 71 , 22 sold the property in 1984. originally a single five-bedroom house and Continuing along Station Road you come to draper’s shop until 1905, when Elizabeth Cope died. 26 The property was then sold to John Wady, who the level crossing. The railway was built in 1850 converted the property into two cottages. Look above but Tempsford Station was not built until the latter the right-hand cottage’s front door and window to see half of the 19th century. The station closed in 1959 the different coloured bricks where the shop window and all that remains is one of the old goods sheds in would have been. the former goods yard, now a small business complex.

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