Box End

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Box End
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Post town BEDFORD
Postcode district MK43
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52°07′N0°32′W / 52.12°N 00.54°W / 52.12; -00.54

Box End (or Kempston Box End) is a village in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Kempston Rural.

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The settlement was one of the hamlets (or "Ends") of Kempston. Today, Box End forms part of the Kempston Rural civil parish.

Box End has a family-owned watersports and activity leisure centre. [1] The village pub, the Slaters Arms, began as a beerhouse with the first reference to it being one of six cottages settled on Thomas Mitchell and his wife Sarah Ann in 1853. It closed in December 2013. [2] [3]

Box End House has been a Grade II* listed building since 1977. It is a late-16th-cenetury timber-framed house, probably originally of H-plan. The right-hand cross wing has been removed, however, and a gable end built up with stone rubble. In 1847 a new principal range was built, parallel with the original, facing south. In 1977 an early 17th-century wall painting was uncovered in a first floor room showing bull-baiting and was the main catalyst for listing the entire building. [4]

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References

  1. "Box End Park". boxendpark.com. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. https://www1.camra.org.uk/pubs/slaters-arms-kempston-box-end-118491).
  3. "The Slaters Arms Public House Kempston Rural". bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk. 21 June 2019.
  4. https://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityHistories/KempstonRural/BoxEndHouse.aspx
  5. Roffe, Erica (9 January 2024). "Former Post Office chief and ex-Bedford School governor hands back CBE following IT scandal". Bedford Independent. Retrieved 27 May 2024.

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