Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUSHMEAD

BUSHMEAD, a seat on the north border of Beds; 5 miles W of St. Neots. A priory of Black canons was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by the Beauchamps; came, at the dissolution, to Sir W. Gascoigne; and passed to the Gerys.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Bushmead

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