Potsgrove
| Potsgrove | |
| Bedfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Parish church of St Mary | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°57’0"N, 0°37’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 44 (2001) |
| Post town: | Milton Keynes |
| Postcode: | MK17 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Central Bedfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mid Bedfordshire |
Potsgrove is a small village and parish in the Manshead Hundred of Bedfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Sheep Lane.
The first reference to the village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. The village is first recorded as "Potesgraue".[1] Later references record the village as "Pottesgrove", which is still used in the name of the local ecclesiastical parish.[2]
Manor Farm in Potsgrove for many years was run by the G Hunter and son. The farm organisation had a successful syndicate shoot for many years also included a dairy milk herd along with beef stock.
Woburn Abbey owned land in Potsgrove.[3]
The village held an annual clay shoot which included team guns vs beaters, plus an open free-to-all shoot-off at the end of the day.
Potsgrove had its own school until the early 1900s, along with a pub called the Sow and Pigs.
References
- ↑ "The Parish of Potsgrove". Bedfordshire.gov.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222065642/http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Potsgrove/Introduction.aspx.
- ↑ "Guide to Bedfordshire parishes". Bedfordshire.gov.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20120213003435/http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/GuidesToCollections/GuideToBedfordshireParishes.aspx.
- ↑ In 1473; second entry in http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no847/bCP40no847dorses/IMG_1461.htm
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