Kensworth

Other current and historical names

Canesworde

Built-Up Area: Kensworth
Parish/Community: Kensworth
Unitary Authority: Central Bedfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°51'7"N 0°30'20"W
Eastings/Northings: 503020, 218118
OS Grid: TL030181
Mapcode Local: GBR G5D.YSV
Mapcode Global: VHFRL.6P0Z

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Kensworth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Kensworth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Kensworth, par. and vil., Herts, in NW. of co., 3 miles SE. of Dunstable, 2553 ac., pop. 655; P.O.; in vicinity of vil. is Kensworth Hill.

Kensworth in the Domesday Book

A village in Danish hundred, in the county of Bedfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Leofwin the noble of Caddington
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Canons of London St Paul
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Canons of London St Paul
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £3 10/- in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 3 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Kensworth, Central Bedfordshire

Kensworth is a village in Central Bedfordshire

Kensworth in historic gazetteers

Kensworth in the Domesday Book