Harrowden House - Tinkers Hill, Harrowden, Bedfordshire, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Dragontree
N 52° 06.911 W 000° 25.945
30U E 675798 N 5776959
Harrowden House lies on the hill near Shortstown.
Waymark Code: WM8KNP
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/15/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member sfwife
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The house is in delightful fields which are full of lambs in the springtime. It is a farmhouse built in the mid-19th century in the Victorian period. In the grounds is an interesting dovecote.

Wikipedia describes Harrowden:
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'Harrowden is a one street hamlet in the English county of Bedfordshire. The street runs from east to west parallel and to the south of the A421 Bedford Southern Bypass, and 200 metres to the north of the village of Shortstown. Like Shortstown, Harrowden is in the Eastcotts parish, of the Borough of Bedford.

* John Bunyan, the noted Christian writer, was born in Harrowden.
* The name of the hamlet comes from the Old English Hearg-dun, meaning "Temple Hill".'
Public/Private: Private

Tours Available?: No

Year Built: Mid-19th Century

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