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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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 Church of All Saints, Ravensden.
Mowsbury Hill
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Church of All Saints, Ravensden
Church
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Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Ravensden, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964.
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
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 the civil parish.
Brickhill
Suburb
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Brickhill is a civil parish and electoral ward within northern Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. The boundaries of Brickhill are approximately Kimbolton Road to the east, Bedford Park and the old Bedford cemetery to the south, with Cemetery Hill and the Manton Heights Industrial Estate to the west. Brickhill is situated 1½ miles southwest of Ravensden.
Renhold
Village
Photo: Flutophilus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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″ northLongitude
-0.44271° or 0° 26′ 34″ westPopulation
648Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)Open location code
9C4X5HH4+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 14676769OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12238211Wikidata ID
Q1520011
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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”
- Ladin: “Ravensden”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ravensden”
- Persian: “رونزدن”
- Polish: “Ravensden”
- Swedish: “Ravensden”
- Turkish: “Ravensden”
- Welsh: “Ravensden”
- “Ravensden”
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