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.
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]
Notable resident
edit- Paula Vennells, the former Post Office Limited CEO lives here in a Grade II listed property.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Box End Park". boxendpark.com. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ https://www1.camra.org.uk/pubs/slaters-arms-kempston-box-end-118491).
- ^ "The Slaters Arms Public House Kempston Rural". bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk. 21 June 2019.
- ^ https://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityHistories/KempstonRural/BoxEndHouse.aspx
- ^ 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.
External links
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