Ravensden
Ravensden is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. The parish borders the town of Bedford, with Mowsbury Park, farmland and Freeman's Common acting as a buffer between the two settlements.- Type: Village with 648 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK
- Also known as: “Ravensden, Bedfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mowsbury Hill and Freeman’s Common.
Mowsbury Hill
Nature reserve
Mowsbury Hill is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve and Scheduled Monument in north Bedford. It is owned and managed by Bedford Borough Council with the assistance of the Friends of Putnoe Wood and Mowsbury Hillfort.
Freeman’s Common
Grassland
Freeman's Common is a 12.5 hectare area of land situated to the north of Bedford, in the parish of Ravensden. It was created in 1858. Over many years it has been the focus of local dispute as to whether the site should be developed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salph End and Brickhill.
Salph End
Locality
Salph End is a village located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Officially, Salph End is one of the hamlets of Renhold, and is the westernmost settlement within Renhold's civil parish.
Brickhill
Suburb
Renhold
Village
Renhold is a village and civil parish located on the River Ouse, in the Borough of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. The parish church is situated some 4 miles east-north-east of Bedford town centre. Renhold is situated 2 miles southeast of Ravensden.
Ravensden
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ravensden, Bedford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.17789° or 52° 10′ 40″ north
Longitude
-0.44271° or 0° 26′ 34″ west
Population
648
Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)
Open location code
9C4X5HH4+5W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ravensden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “روفنسدن”
- Bulgarian: “Равенсден”
- Cebuano: “Ravensden”
- Chinese: “Ravensden”
- Dutch: “Ravensden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روفنسدن”
- French: “Ravensden”
- Irish: “Ravensden”
- Italian: “Ravensden”
- Kurdish: “Ravensden”
- Ladin: “Ravensden”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ravensden”
- Persian: “رونزدن”
- Polish: “Ravensden”
- Swedish: “Ravensden”
- Turkish: “Ravensden”
- Urdu: “ریوینزڈن”
- Welsh: “Ravensden”
- “Ravensden”
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