Haynes

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Haynes
Bedfordshire
Road junction, Haynes - geograph.org.uk - 837793.jpg
Location
Location: 52°2’60"N, 0°25’0"W
Data
Population: 1,199  (2011[1])
Post town: Bedford
Postcode: MK45
Dialling code: 01234
Local Government
Council: Central Bedfordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Mid Bedfordshire

Haynes is a small village, parish and former manor in the Flitt Hundred of Bedfordshire, about seven miles south of Bedford. It includes the small hamlet of Haynes Church End. It used to be known as Hawnes.[2] North from Haynes is a hamlet named Silver End, then further up is Herrings Green, Cotton End and Shortstown. There is a pub, "The Greyhound", a shop, a post office, a village hall and a Lower School.

In 1730 the philosopher John Gay became Vicar of Wilshamstead (later adding the living of Haynes).

Etymology

The name Haynes is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Hagenes. This derives from an Old English word *hægen or *hagen meaning 'enclosure', in its plural form.[3]

Manor

Haynes Park in 2001

Haynes or Hwanes Manor belonged to Sir Robert Newdigate, who died in 1613, and King James was a regular visitor.[4] James came to Haynes on 22 July 1615. The next day he heard that his brother-in-law Christian IV was with his wife Anne of Denmark in London at Denmark House, and he raced back riding through a hail storm.[5]

Haynes manor was acquired in about 1667 by Vice Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c.1610-1680) of Jersey.[6][7]

The present mansion of Haynes Park was built c.1725 by his son John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

Notes

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  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124376&c=Haynes&d=16&e=62&g=6402616&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1478606427697&enc=1. 
  2. "GENUKI: Haynes, Bedfordshire". http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/Haynes/. 
  3. Mills, A. D., A Dictionary of English Place Names (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), s.v. Haynes.
  4. 'Newdigate, Robert II (c.1565-1613), of Hawnes', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
  5. John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), pp. 13-4.
  6. Victoria County History, Bedford, Volume 2, William Page (editor), 1908, pp.338-344, Parishes: Hawnes or Haynes [1]
  7. See: article in Country Life Magazine, by C. Hussey "Hawnes, Bedfordshire", Country Life, 29 December 1934, pp.692-697 featuring Hawnes (Haynes Park) the property of Hawnes School. With a 6 page write up with black and white illustrations of the exterior and interior of the house [2]
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