Renhold, Bedfordshire

[From Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831.]

RENHOLD, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD, county of BEDFORD, 3¾ Miles (N.E.) from Bedford, containing 340 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8.3.4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of John Polhill, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The river Ouse runs through the parish. William Belcher, in 1723, gave £600 for the support of a school, in which from twenty to thirty children are educated; the annual income is about £20. In the neighbourhood are several ancient mounds, called "the Amphitheatre."

The Church web site has, apart from current Church information, the following information:

• History of All Saints Church
• History of all the Vicars
• History of Joye
• History of the Lords of the Manor - Becher Family 1602-1781 and Polhill family 1781 to date
• The Parish Registers 1602 - 1812 in date order and alpha order
• The MIs of the Churchyard in number order with plan and alpha order
• The War Memorial

 
Photograph Copyright © Martin Edwards - 2000

Within in the church is a wooden plaque bearing the names of all the vicars since 1229.